Africa Foreign Investor Survey 2005 - unido

4. Size profiles for different subgroups
of investors
This chapter gives a finer description of the survey sample
by providing cross tabulations of the frequencies
and firm size profiles for the six investor type categories
under study (organizational structure, origin, main sector,
market orientation, age and share structure). The
size profile is given for each cross tabulation cell in the
form of the mean, median and sum for sales, book values
and workforce. In the case of frequency cross tabulations
the significance level is given to indicate if, and to what
degree, we can be confident that difference between cell
values is not a chance occurrence.
The size profile graphs reflect the varying trends
between sales and book values on the one hand and
employment on the other. The means and medians
looked at together provide a sense of the range of the size
distribution in the particular group and the figure for the
sum gives a feel of the significance of each group in terms
of absolute value.
First, within the category of organizational structure,
L-TNCs, S-TNCs and FEs are analysed by giving:
(a) Size of the firms within each group;
(b) The composition of each group in terms of main
sectors and
(c) The composition of each group in terms of the age
of the firms (period of entry).
The North and South origin investor groups are looked
at to see how they differ from each other in terms of:
(a) Size of the firms;
(b) The composition of the 15 subsectors in terms of
investors of North and South origin;
(c) The variations within the North and South groups
in terms of organizational structure;
(d) The variations within the North and South groups
in terms of period of entry (age) of the investor.
The three market orientation groups, the local market
seekers, regional exporters and global exporters, are
compared to each other to see if there are significant variations
by looking at:
(a) The composition of the 15 subsectors in terms of local,
regional and global market-oriented foreign investors;
(b) Size of the firms within the three market orientation
categories;
(c) The variations within North and South investor
origin groups in terms of market orientation.
The three main sectors, agro-business (primary), manufacturing
(secondary) and services (tertiary), are studied
in terms of:
(a) Size of the firms in each main sector;
(b) The composition of each main sector in terms of
North-South;
(c) The composition of each main sector and subsector
in terms of investors’ region of origin;
(d) The variations within each main sector in terms of
period of entry (age) of the investor.
The share ownership categories of joint ventures and
wholly-owned are also analysed to determine the characteristics
of each in terms of:
(a) Size of the firms;
(b) The composition of each category in terms of subsector
and investors’ region of origin;
(c) The variations of each category in terms of period
of entry (age) of the investor
(d) The variations in terms in terms of North-South;
Trends are analysed by looking at the changes in the
make up of the age groups of the firms (or the periods of
entry) in terms of:
(a) Investors from which regions arrived when;
(b) Entry trends in the different subsectors;
(c) Size of the firms that started operations in different
time periods;
(d) Market orientation of firms that started operations
at different time periods.
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