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Expanding to outward foreign direct investment or not? A multi-dimensional analysis of entry mode transformation of Chinese private exporting firms
This research examines the factors determining whether or not exporting firms expand to outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) as part of their internationalisation strategy, using a recent survey of Chinese private-owned enterprises. We carry out a multi-dimensional analysis to investigate the impact of firm productivity, internal resources and the external environment on OFDI decisions, including both the decision to undertake OFDI and the volume of OFDI flows. It is found that productivity, technology-based capability, export experience, industry entry barriers, subnational institutions and intermediary institutional support affect firms’ OFDI decisions. The findings have important policy and managerial implications
Toward a unified interpretation of quark and lepton mixing from flavor and CP symmetries
We discussed the scenario that a discrete flavor group combined with CP
symmetry is broken to in both neutrino and charged lepton
sectors. All lepton mixing angles and CP violation phases are predicted to
depend on two free parameters and varying in the
range of . As an example, we comprehensively study the lepton mixing
patterns which can be derived from the flavor group and CP
symmetry. Three kinds of phenomenologically viable lepton mixing matrices are
obtained up to row and column permutations. We further extend this approach to
the quark sector. The precisely measured quark mixing angles and CP invariant
can be accommodated for certain values of the free parameters and
. A simultaneous description of quark and lepton flavor mixing
structures can be achieved from a common flavor group and CP,
and accordingly the smallest value of the group index is .Comment: 40 pages, 8 figure
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