Entry strategies into China: The choice between Joint Ventures and Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprises: An application to the Italian manufacturing sector

Maria Elena Bontempi () and Giorgio Prodi

International Review of Economics & Finance, 2009, vol. 18, issue 1, pages 11-19

Abstract: We investigate the entry choice between Joint Ventures and Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprises in the Chinese market. The analysis is based on Italian firms, thus allowing to evaluate the behaviour of also small-medium sized companies -- usually less focused on by the literature on entry modes. The data, mainly from a questionnaire, supply detailed enterprise-level information and make possible to properly measure and evaluate the impact on entry modes of several variables such as innovation, internationalization, and, new in the empirical literature on this issue, corporate capital structure.

Keywords: China; Joint; Ventures; Wholly; Owned-Foreign; Enterprises; Questionnaire; Logit; models; Entry; modes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

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