Factors to Consider in Choosing FDI Locations

Exhibit 14.3 lists the criteria firms use to evaluate countries as potential targets for FDI projects. Suppose Taiwan-based Acer (www.acer.com) wants to build a new computer factory. Its managers will research the best country in which to build it, looking at country and regional factors, infrastructural factors, political factors, profit retention factors, and human resource factors.

Exhibit 14.3

Factors to Consider in Selecting Foreign Direct Investment Locations

A diagram presents factors to consider in selecting foreign direct investment locations.

Sources: John H. Dunning, Explaining International Production (New York: Routledge, 2015); Daniel Hoi Ki Ho and Peter Tze Yiu Lau, “Perspectives ...

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