Risk Evaluation of Plant Locations of Taiwanese FDI in China

This paper proposes a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) model for the risk evaluation of plant locations of foreign direct investment (FDI). Finally, a case study of Taiwanese FDI in China is conduced to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed MCDM model. The results show that the proposed MCDM model can be used to explain the plant location choice of Taiwanese FDI in China well.

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