South Africa as a strategic operations destination for chemical manufactures

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dc.contributor.advisor Barnard, Helena en
dc.contributor.postgraduate Serrurier, Marc en
dc.date.accessioned 2013-09-06T18:02:10Z
dc.date.available 2010-07-08 en
dc.date.available 2013-09-06T18:02:10Z
dc.date.created 2010-04-11 en
dc.date.issued 2010-07-08 en
dc.date.submitted 2010-05-12 en
dc.description Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. en
dc.description.abstract The decision to expand the operational base of the company into developing markets is but one of the many decisions that executives of multinational companies should be considering in today’s age of increased globalisation. As foreign direct investment can provide excellent alternatives to formal development capital, developing economies are increasingly leveraging this option to develop their home economy and industries within it. This research paper investigates the determinants of foreign direct investment by multinational United States based chemical companies into the chemical industries of the world. This offers a potential solution as to what the strategic reasons for this investment may be, as well as determines what the local country can do better to improve its position. The research clusters 26 variables into five cluster groupings that include the value of human capital, level of country infrastructure, industry performance factors, governance indicators and environmental compliance indicators. The variables within the cluster groupings are subjected to a regression analysis with the investment of US multinational companies into worldwide chemical industries as the constant variable. The results yield a model with a R² value for the regression of over 0.8 with six variables considered significant contributors to the model. en
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dc.description.department Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) en
dc.identifier.citation Serrurier, M 2009, South Africa as a strategic operations destination for chemical manufactures, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24581 > en
dc.identifier.other G10/367/ag en
dc.identifier.upetdurl http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05122010-132515/ en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24581
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher University of Pretoria en_ZA
dc.rights © 2009 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. en
dc.subject UCTD en_US
dc.subject Strategic planning en
dc.title South Africa as a strategic operations destination for chemical manufactures en
dc.type Dissertation en


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