MGT491H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Automotive Industry In Japan, Greenfield Project, Multinational Corporation
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Indian retailing sector is highly fragmented and dominated by small enterprises: most are unincorporated businesses run by individual and households. Farmers support fdi because they would receive lots of benefits from working with foreign retailers. Fdi = when a firm invests directly in facilities to produce or market a product in a foreign country. Multinational enterprise when invest in a foreign country. Greenfield = the establishment of a wholly new operation in a foreign country. Acquisitions or mergers with existing firms in the foreign country. Flow of fdi = the amount of fdi undertaken over a given time period (normally a yr) Stock of fdi = the total accumulated value of foreign-owned assets at a given time. Average yearly outflow of fdi increased from billion in 1975 to . 6 trillion in 2012. Country focus: china (p. 137: chia was a relatively poor country, lacking purchasing power an immature martu. The form of fdi: acquisition vs greenfield investment.
