Author(s)

Tingya Zhang

Business School, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.

The choice of entry mode, especially the choice between sole proprietorship and joint venture, is one of the important strategic decisions for multinational corporations to make foreign direct investment. Although there have been a large number of empirical studies on the relationship between entry mode and enterprise performance, the existing studies have not reached a more consistent conclusion on the relationship between them and the influencing factors affecting the relationship between them. This paper selects 58 independent empirical studies, and uses the Meta-analysis method to integrate the empirical results, and obtains the comprehensive results that the equity entry mode has a significant impact on corporate performance. At the same time, the study also found that the relationship between equity entry mode and enterprise performance is affected by the degree of development of the source country and host country, enterprise size and other factors.

Entry Mode, Performance, Meta-Analysis, Emerging Economies

Zhang, T. (2019) Equity Entry Mode and Enterprise Performance: A Meta-Analysis. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 7, 210-222. doi: 10.4236/jss.2019.712016.