“…Therefore, greenfield FDI can be attractive when firm-specific technological and organisational competences define a firm's ability to compete on the market, since the company has the possibility to duplicate (parts of) their know-how, their routines, and the physical property (Hennart and Park 1993) across locations. If a company, instead, aims at (immediate) access to the technologies and the local market experience of a target firm, a takeover can be preferable (Ó hUallacháin and Reid 1997;Cantwell and Santangelo 2002). M&A projects, therefore, seem to be a less risky entry mode compared to greenfield investment.…”