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FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

1998

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The Role Of Overseas Chinese Investment In The Emerging Countries Of Southeast And East Asia : A Confucian Model Of The Foreign Direct Investment Decision Making Process Using Factors Unconsidered In The West, Linda Dunn Clarke Apr 1998

The Role Of Overseas Chinese Investment In The Emerging Countries Of Southeast And East Asia : A Confucian Model Of The Foreign Direct Investment Decision Making Process Using Factors Unconsidered In The West, Linda Dunn Clarke

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the foreign direct investment location decision making process through the examination of non-Western investors and their investment strategies in non-traditional markets. This was accomplished through in-depth personal interviews with 50 Overseas Chinese business owners and executives in several different industries from Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Thailand about 97 separate investment projects in Southeast and East Asia, including The Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, Taiwan, and Mainland China.

Traditional factors utilized in Western models of the foreign …