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Modelling Malaysian outward foreign direct investment from the home and host countries' perspectives / Rosfadzimi Mat Saad

Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) is one of the measures to indicate the performance and capability of developing countries firms in economic integration where border barriers are eliminated. Malaysia as a developing economy is undertaking OFDI due to the limitation of local resources and to...

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Main Author: Mat Saad, Rosfadzimi
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2018
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Investment, capital formation, speculation
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spelling my.uitm.ir.221332019-01-11T07:14:09Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22133/ Modelling Malaysian outward foreign direct investment from the home and host countries' perspectives / Rosfadzimi Mat Saad Mat Saad, Rosfadzimi Investment, capital formation, speculation Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) is one of the measures to indicate the performance and capability of developing countries firms in economic integration where border barriers are eliminated. Malaysia as a developing economy is undertaking OFDI due to the limitation of local resources and to search for new markets. Thus in relation to the contemporary economic development mainly globalisation and regionalism issue, in the context of Malaysia as one of the emerging developing countries, identifying the primary determinants contributed to OFDI of Malaysia is crucial for sustainable growth. This thesis studies the determinants of OFDI by Malaysian based Multinational Corporations, MNCs. It focuses on the trends, patterns and domestic factors that pushes off Malaysian firms to involve in OFDI using Dunning's Push Factors theory. Multiple regression analysis is performed on time series data beginning from 1981 to 2011. The study finds that income level, labour quality, currency value, trade openness, firm's capability and technology are the major pushing factors of Malaysia's OFDI. In addition, the studies also examine Malaysian OFDI in the developing countries perspective as suggested by Banga (2005) before proceeding to the long run dynamic Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag, ARDL model… Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2018 Book Section PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22133/1/ABS_ROSFADZIMI%20MAT%20SAAD%20TDRA%20VOL%2014%20IGS%2018.pdf Mat Saad, Rosfadzimi (2018) Modelling Malaysian outward foreign direct investment from the home and host countries' perspectives / Rosfadzimi Mat Saad. In: The Doctoral Research Abstracts. IGS Biannual Publication, 14 . Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM, Shah Alam.
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topic Investment, capital formation, speculation
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Mat Saad, Rosfadzimi
Modelling Malaysian outward foreign direct investment from the home and host countries' perspectives / Rosfadzimi Mat Saad
description Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) is one of the measures to indicate the performance and capability of developing countries firms in economic integration where border barriers are eliminated. Malaysia as a developing economy is undertaking OFDI due to the limitation of local resources and to search for new markets. Thus in relation to the contemporary economic development mainly globalisation and regionalism issue, in the context of Malaysia as one of the emerging developing countries, identifying the primary determinants contributed to OFDI of Malaysia is crucial for sustainable growth. This thesis studies the determinants of OFDI by Malaysian based Multinational Corporations, MNCs. It focuses on the trends, patterns and domestic factors that pushes off Malaysian firms to involve in OFDI using Dunning's Push Factors theory. Multiple regression analysis is performed on time series data beginning from 1981 to 2011. The study finds that income level, labour quality, currency value, trade openness, firm's capability and technology are the major pushing factors of Malaysia's OFDI. In addition, the studies also examine Malaysian OFDI in the developing countries perspective as suggested by Banga (2005) before proceeding to the long run dynamic Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag, ARDL model…
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title Modelling Malaysian outward foreign direct investment from the home and host countries' perspectives / Rosfadzimi Mat Saad
title_short Modelling Malaysian outward foreign direct investment from the home and host countries' perspectives / Rosfadzimi Mat Saad
title_full Modelling Malaysian outward foreign direct investment from the home and host countries' perspectives / Rosfadzimi Mat Saad
title_fullStr Modelling Malaysian outward foreign direct investment from the home and host countries' perspectives / Rosfadzimi Mat Saad
title_full_unstemmed Modelling Malaysian outward foreign direct investment from the home and host countries' perspectives / Rosfadzimi Mat Saad
title_sort modelling malaysian outward foreign direct investment from the home and host countries' perspectives / rosfadzimi mat saad
publisher Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM
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