Market-Seeking FDI Attempts to Secure Market Share and Sales Growth

question 38

Multiple Choice

Market-seeking FDI attempts to secure market share and sales growth in the target foreign market. Apart from market size and the prospects for market growth, the reasons for market-seeking FDI include situations in which

• A) the firm's main suppliers or customers have set up foreign producing facilities abroad and the firm needs to follow them overseas.
• B) the firm's products need to be adapted to local tastes or needs, and to indigenous resources and capabilities.
• C) the firm considers it necessary, as part of its global production and marketing strategy, to maintain a physical presence in the leading markets served by its competitors.
• D) all of the above.

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