Motives for Investing Chinese Companies in Bangladesh and their Outwards FDI

This paper identifies the incentives preferred by the Chinese firms to invest in Bangladesh. It is mentionable that incentives choice criterion of FDI mostly depends on the socioeconomic condition of the host country, strategies followed by that country with the home country, geographical aspect etc. But historically we find most Chinese firm prefers wholly own subsidiaries for investing Bangladesh , faces severe host industry competition, and emphasizes assets seeking purposes in its FDI by using survey data of a sample of 145 Chinese firms. In few cases a joint venture is preferred when the firm is investing in mount in host market. Elsewhere they try to take advantages from the host country because of their widen market share as well as one of the largest economy in the world.