The Determinants of the Location of Foreign Direct Investment by Japanese Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

By S. Urata, Hiroki Kawai. 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Drivers and antecedents of manufacturing offshoring and backshoring—A German perspective (2009, background): “The probit analysis shows that the propensity to offshore production activities rises significantly with the size (log of number of employees) of the company, which is in line with many previous results (e.g. Fillis, 2001; Kinkel and Lay, 2004; Urata and Kawai, 2000).”
The Determinants of Chinese Outward FDI in Countries Along “One Belt One Road” (2017, result): “This result is not in accordance with existing findings that believe countries with good infrastructure facilities attract more foreign investments, which therefore has a positive impact on FDI inflow (Asiedu and Whalley 2006; Cheng and Kwan 2000; Muhammad et al. 2014; Urata and Kawai 2000).”
Determinants of International Activities: Are SMEs Different? (2005, background): “To mention are, for example, Buckley (1997) as well as the (already mentioned) contributions of Kohn (1997), Mutinelli and Piscitello (1998) and Urata and Kawai (2000).”
The Past and the Future of International Entrepreneurship: A Review and Suggestions for Developing the Field (2009, background): “…and Gimenez (2007) Simon and Lamb (1995) Steensma, Marino, and Weaver (2000) Steensma, Marino, Weaver, and Dickson (2000) Tsang (2001) Tsang (2002) Urata and Kawai (2000) Wagner (1995) Weerawardena, Mort, Liersch, and Knight (2007) Wengel and Rodriguez (2006) Westhead, Wright, and Ucbasaran…”
Private Provision of Infrastructure in Emerging Markets: Do Institutions Matter? (2006, background): “Urata and Kawai (2000) argue that foreign investors may seek out low-wage illiterate populations in order to reduce costs.”
Exchange Rate, Exchange Rate Volatility and Foreign Direct Investment (2004, unknown): “Urata and Kawai (2000) included exchange rates and their volatility, which was measured by the coefficient of variation of exchange rate over a five-year period, in their study of Japanese firms’ decision on the location of their FDI.”
The FDI location decision: does liberalization matter? (2007, background): “The role of SMEs in FDI flows has been increasingly acknowledged (Fujita, 1995a, 1995b; Urata and Kawai, 2000), but there are still relatively few empirical studies, compared to those that focus on large TNCs. Investments by transnational SMEs are much less visible, and official data often only…”
Investment Climate and FDI in Developing Countries: Firm-Level Evidence (2010, background): “Urata and Kawai (2000) and Fung et al. (2002) get similar results.”