Advantage Analysis Of Japanese Small And Medium-sized Enterprises' Foreign Direct Investment

It is a fairly long process for people to understand the development of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). People believed that the major part of FDI should be big transnational corporations (TNCs), and thought that the transnational investment should always be the action of big TNCs in the past. With the times vicissitude, the motives and modes of FDI change greatly and take on different characteristics. Thus people could have more deep and comprehensive cognition on FDI from the development point of view.Since the 80s'of the 20th century, the environment of world economy, international investment and technology changed rapidly. The changes of the environment urge the diversification of the principal part in the investment field. Small and Medium-sized Enterprises'(SMEs) FDI activities expedite rapidly. The diversities of the demands of social and products lead to the product lifecycle shorten, the cost of R&D rise up quickly, corporations need not only adjust the structure of products, but also keep the reasonable size of innovation products, prolong the product lifecycle to get fruitful rewords of the input of R&D by FDI in overseas market. With the development of information technology and the standardization of technology methods, it provides premise for SMEs to collocate labor and resources in the world wide with lower cost. Moreover, it also provides new opportunities for SMEs to enter other countries'market. Meantime, due to the aggrandizement of the trend of world economy integrative, the pattern of the world economy changed widely, large quantities of SMEs begin to take part in the overseas investment procession and become...