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Outward Foreign Direct Investment from China<br />

Dan Wang 1 , Susan Freeman 1 & Kate Hutchings 1<br />

1. Department <strong>of</strong> Management, Building N , 27 Sir John Monash Drive, Caulfield East<br />

Victoria 3145, AUSTRALIA<br />

This poster examines the unique motivations <strong>and</strong> strategies for outward foreign direct<br />

investment (OFDI) undertaken by Chinese multinationals (MNEs), <strong>and</strong> addresses the<br />

challenges associated with these unique motivations <strong>and</strong> strategies. We find that the activities<br />

<strong>of</strong> Chinese MNEs are strongly influenced by the institutional environment <strong>of</strong> China, <strong>and</strong> that<br />

despite the unique resources Chinese MNEs possess, institutional theory rather than the<br />

resource based view is best placed as a theoretical framework when examining Chinese OFDI.<br />

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