The Empirical Test of Chinese OFDI and Overseas Corporate Business Performance—Based the Perspective of Investment Location and Access Mode

Abstract

The choice of entry mode and investment location is the core of two strategic decisions for the corporate to carry out foreign direct investment. With corporate foreign direct investment from 2002 to 2010 as samples, which respectively examined the impact of the location choice on overseas companies survival rate from the cultural level and economic level. The results show: enterprises carry out the investment in the host market of small cultural distance, but large economy distance, foreign companies can obtain a higher survival rate; the survival rate of overseas companies through the entry mode of newly established enterprise is higher than overseas companies through the entry mode of the patterns of M&A.