After the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea, there has been rapid development of cooperation in various fields including, but not limited to, politics, economy, cultural exchange and science and technology. With these...
After the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea, there has been rapid development of cooperation in various fields including, but not limited to, politics, economy, cultural exchange and science and technology. With these advancements and in the field of FDI(Foreign Direct Investment), the number of Chinese investment to Korea has also rapidly increased.
Even this increasing importance of current stage evaloution for the sino-Korean FDI trends, especially for the Chinese investment to Korea, this study while basing on Dunning’s Eclectic theory, by virtue of its analysis and verification of the factors that the determinants of ownership-based entry mode and performance by Chinese enterprises direct investment in Korea, is designed to offer suggestions on effective entry strategies and implications for Chinese enterprises interested in Direct investment in Korea.
For the purposes of this study, a research questionnaire was made and issued to 200’s Chinese enterprises that have successfully gained entry into South Korea. Out of these appropriately answered questionnaires were utilized. In order to test the formulated hypothesis, the statistical program SPSS Version 16.0 was run and it helped carry out frequency analysis, validity and reliability analysis, Pearson's correlation analysis, logistic regression analysis and multiple regression analysis.
The analytic results are as follows;
First, in terms of population dynamics, globalization experience and human resource superiority together with environmental factors, risks associated with the local country and present market demand variables are seen to affect the means of FDI ownership-based entry mode in Korea.
Secondly, Technical factors have shown that they do not affect both FDI ownership-based entry and its performance thereof.
Third, in view of direct investments in Korea, wholly owned subsidiaries have shown much higher subsidiary performances than the joint venture corporations. In terms of internal factors such as the population’s global experience, human resource superiority, local subsidiary’s marketing and financial capabilities, both the wholly owned subsidiaries and the joint venture corporations have recorded a positive effects from the said internal factors.
Moreover, this research has shown, in terms of environmental factors that variables such as uncertainty and local market demand brought about by local country’s national risk affect overall sample of direct investments as it does to the wholly owned subsidiaries in Korea while cultural variables are seen to only influence companies engaging in the joint venture corporations.
This study in conclusion, based on its resultant findings offers implications and discusses on its limitations while offering insightful suggestions for successive research studies in the future.