The Determinants and Motivations of Chinese Telecommunication MNEs in Africa: Effects of Host Countries’ Economic Environment on IMNEs’ Location Choice

Yuxuan Tang ()
Additional contact information
Yuxuan Tang: Shanghai University of International Bus

Chapter 6 in The Operations of Chinese Infrastructure Multinationals in Africa, 2021, pp 125-166 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter investigates the effects of ownership on firm location choices and motivations for foreign market entry. Prior studies suggest that Chinese state owned enterprises (SOEs) investment in Africa is driven by government political motives on macroeconomic conditions and institutional environment whereas private investments are driven by economic incentives. To fill in the gap of ownership difference, it examines strategic behaviour of Chinese telecommunication MNEs in Africa and argue that besides the state incentives, private motives also matter for Chinese investments in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector. Using a unique dataset detailing location choices of two major Chinese ICT in African countries between 2003 and 2010 contributes to the literature of emerging market multinationals in less developed countries by comparing mixed ownership MNEs with private companies. It thus provides a fundamental and complementary analysis for the latter case-study.

Keywords: Location choice; Foreign market entry; Mixed ownership; Telecommunications; Motivation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

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:spr:sprchp:978-981-16-2562-6_6

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9789811625626

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-2562-6_6

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().