Foreign Direct Investment Location Choice Factors: Some Evidence for Brazil

Romana Korez-Vide (), Patrick Voller () and Vito Bobek ()
Additional contact information
Romana Korez-Vide: Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor
Patrick Voller: FH Joanneum Graz, University of Applied Sciences
Vito Bobek: FH Joanneum Graz, University of Applied Sciences

Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy, 2014, vol. 2, issue 3, 424-439

Abstract: Due to the liberalization and transformation of emerging markets economies, the attractiveness of these countries for foreign direct investors has been rising in the last decades. This paper explores foreign direct investment (FDI) location choice factors of German and Austrian companies in Brazilian regions. We perform a quantitative analysis, based on the Multinomial Nested Logit Model and supplement its findings by the qualitative analysis, based on the semi-structured experts’ interview. The analyses show that investor-nation specific agglomeration, industry specialization, workforce qualification and physical infrastructure were important FDI location choice factors for German and Austrian companies in Brazil. Suggestions for future research of the FDI location choice factors are discussed.

Keywords: foreign direct investment; location choice factors; emerging markets; agglomerations; Multinomial Nested Logit Model. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://managementdynamics.ro/index.php/journal/article/download/67/54 (application/pdf)
http://managementdynamics.ro/index.php/journal/article/view/67/54 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nup:jrmdke:v:2:y:2014:i:6:p:424-439

Access Statistics for this article

Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy is currently edited by Contantin BRATIANU, Florina PINZARU, Elena Madalina VATAMANESCU and Alexandra ZBUCHEA

More articles in Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy from College of Management, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Cristian-Mihai VIDU ().