Mohammad Ali  Abdolvand, Seyed Mohammad  Hosein Mousavi, 
    Identifying and Prioritizing the in Fluential Factors in   Attracting Foreign Direct Investment,
    International Business Management,
    Volume 10,Issue 10,
    2016,
    Pages 1817-1820,
    ISSN 1993-5250,
    ibm.2016.1817.1820,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2016.1817.1820)
    Abstract: Foreign direct investment is an investment that aims to achieve sustainable benefits in a country other than the investor’s home and purpose of investor in this investment is to have an effective role in business management. The impact of foreign direct investment spectrum is very wide such as economic growth rate, employment, technology transfer and production techniques, strengthening and expanding international and financial resources increase research and development increase efficiency, impact on imports and exports and payments balance increase in competitiveness and growth of national technology and employment capacity and firms growth, each of which in turn has complexities. Therefore, using the appropriate literature in this study we investigated the influential factors on attracting foreign investment. Then, these factors were identified through Chi-square test and were prioritized using the Shannon entropy. Results showed that the rate of return on investment, economic growth and infrastructures are the most important factors in attracting foreign direct investment.
    Keywords: Foreign direct investment;rate of return on investment;economic growth;infrastructures;national