Do You Imitate Immediately? The Location Choices for Foreign Direct Investment

DOI

10.2991/itmr.2015.5.4.2How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Foreign Direct Investment, Imitation, Matthew Effect, Recency Effect.

Abstract

This study applies recency effect on interfirm imitation behavior to investigate whether recent location choices of peer firms regarding foreign direct investment (FDI) exert imitation pressure on another firm’s FDI location choices. This study examines the FDI data of listed companies in Taiwan. The results confirm the existence of recency effect. This study further indicates that the remote experience peer firms and a firm’s own experience have negative moderating effects on recency effect.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hsien-Jui Chung
AU  - Wei-Wan Liao
AU  - Chad Lin
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015/11/30
TI  - Do You Imitate Immediately? The Location Choices for Foreign Direct Investment
JO  - The International Technology Management Review
SP  - 172
EP  - 181
VL  - 5
IS  - 4
SN  - 1835-5269
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/itmr.2015.5.4.2
DO  - 10.2991/itmr.2015.5.4.2
ID  - Chung2015
ER  -