Özet:

One of the most important benefits of globalizing economies is that it opens the way for foreign direct investments by multinational corporations. Many developing countries see foreign direct investment inflow as a new door for economic development opportunity. From the perspective of multinational companies who want to carry out foreign direct investment, the strategic importance of the location selection emerges. In this study, it is aimed to do an exploratory research to determine the factors that play an important role in attracting or removing foreign direct investors, which are effective in the location selection decision of the host country. For this purpose, the factors that are considered as the determinants of the location selection decisions of foreign investors in the foreign literature and the effects of these factors on the location selection decision will be explained with the help of past studies. After that, the contributions of the current foreign studies since the 2000s to the foreign direct decision of the foreign investors will be mentioned. It is thought that the study will guide the future research by revealing the factors and the most influential factors affecting foreign direct investment in the decision of the host country.

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