Motives of Foreign Firms in Pakistan

dc.contributor.author	Mohammad H. Akhtar
dc.contributor.author	Peter J. Buckley
dc.date.accessioned	2014-07-17T08:47:47Z
dc.date.available	2014-07-17T08:47:47Z
dc.date.issued	2000-12
dc.identifier.citation	The Lahore Journal of Economics Volume 5, No.2	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1811-5438
dc.identifier.uri	http://121.52.153.179/Volume.html
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/5181
dc.description	PP.20; ill	en_US
dc.description.abstract	To date no study has been made to explore the FDI motives of foreign firms in Pakistan. An attempt has been made to rectify this position through a survey of both wholly- and majority-owned multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the economy. Market size and growth variables appear to be the most cited reasons for FDI by MNEs in the sample. The use of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) also reinforces the significance of market size as the motive for FDI in Pakistan. The other underlying factors produced by the EFA are: expansion of business, low input prices, desire to lower the transaction costs and psychic distance.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	© Lahore School of Economics	en_US
dc.subject	Foreign Firms	en_US
dc.title	Motives of Foreign Firms in Pakistan	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US