A Firm Will Favor FDI Over Exporting as an Entry

question 18

Multiple Choice

A firm will favor FDI over exporting as an entry strategy when

• A) the costs of establishing production facilities are high.
• B) the transportation costs or trade barriers are high.
• C) there are problems associated with doing business in a different culture.
• D) the products involved have a high value-to-weight ratio.
• E) the firm wants to occupy a position that falls inside the efficiency frontier.

Understand the implications of the law of diminishing returns on the MRP curve and hiring practices.

Identify how the productivity and market value of resources influence their demand.

Examine the relationship between resource complementarity and resource demand.

Analyze how market competitiveness affects the elasticity of resource demand.

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