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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Direct Investment

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Investments - tangible and intangible benefits and rights to them, including intellectual property rights, as well as reinvestment, invested in objects of entrepreneurial and other activities not prohibited by law. According to the International Monetary Fund, foreign direct investment, commonly known as FDI, "... is investment made to acquire lasting or long-term interest in enterprises operating outside of the economy of the investor"(1993). Investing directly as an investor, which may be a foreign person, company or group of companies, is trying to control, manage or have a significant impact on the foreign company. OECD also defined the term of foreign direct investment enterprise as “an incorporated or unincorporated enterprise in which a foreign investor owns 10 percent or more of the ordinary shares or voting power of an incorporated enterprise or the equivalent of an unincorporated enterprise”(1996). It introduces a so-called "10% rule", according to which acquisition of at least 10% of the company's assets cannot be …show more content…

In vertical FDI company opens factories in different markets around the world and there is cross-shipping of products between borders. According to the Ekholm and Forslid, most headquarters of Multinational Corporation which adopted to type of vertical FDI are located in big and developed places to keep the brand image and spread it to target market with focusing on maximizing company’s profit, and they choose low cost locations for distribute production factories with focusing on minimizing the production cost. The General Motors Uzbekistan (GMUz) Car Company is one the biggest multinational company not only in Uzbekistan and even inside of Central Asia. GM Company chose vertical FDI to produce cars in new image with new facilities by keeping the brand

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