Despite an extensive literature on the determinants of the foreign location
choices by multinational companies, researchers have only recently begun to
systematically examine how these companies form their location consideration
sets. When considering new foreign locations, do firms evaluate the attributes of
the alternatives at the national level, the sub-national regional level, at some other
level of geographical aggregation, or using some combination of these?
This book employs discrete choice models to examine how U.S. multinational
companies form their location consideration sets and to identify some of the
relevant location attributes. The results indicate that U.S. firms tend to employ a
sequential, or hierarchical, decision-making process in which a host country is
first chosen based on one set of attributes and then a region within that country is
chosen, based on another set of attributes. The relevant location attributes
discussed in this book include industrial agglomeration and labor market
conditions.
Referencia
Cornejo, L. K. (2009). Multinational Companies : Outsourcing, Conduct,
and Taxes. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
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