The Study of FDI Information Resources for Small and Medium Size Enterprises

However, since investing abroad involving determining where to invest, what to invest , in what entry mode, and how to select the right partners and so on ,it becomes very complicated and risky for a SME to invest abroad. To decrease the risk, it is very important for a decision maker to collect enough appropriate information before evaluating each investment alternative.

But since most SMEs are short of manpower to collect right information, or they have no idea about where to collect the right information, they are not able to utilize the information resources effectively. There are three objectives of this study. The first objective is to explore how those SMEs collect relative information before making FDI decisions.