本研究取樣59家大型製造業及62家中小型製造業，對其國際化情形進行問卷調查，主要發現如下：（1）臺灣企業國際化的主要原因依序是：勞工及土地成本昂貴，擴展海外市場及分散風險，外國競爭及誘因,獲得原材料及節省運輸費用，臺灣政治不穩定。（2）臺灣企業國際化困難之處依序是：缺乏國際化人才，地主國條件不佳，文化差異。（3）有 64% 的公司採取根留臺灣的策略：把勞力密集的產業外移，把高科技的產業留在臺灣，採行國際分工。（4）公司規模、資本密集程度、國際化階段及國際化程度對國際化策略有顯著影響。

　　　　　Fifty-nine large-sized companies and sixty-two small to medium-sized companies have completed an internationalization questionnaire. The main findings include: (1)The reasons for Taiwanese business internationalization are in the following order: high labor and land price, expand market share and disperse risk, overseas competition and incentives, to obtain raw material and save transportation cost, political concern. (2) The difficulties are in the following order: shortage of human resources in international business, inadequate overseas condition, and cultural gap. (3) There are 64% companies apply the strategy for keeping roots in Taiwan: moving labor intensive industry overseas, keep high technology industries in Taiwan, international division of labor. (4) Companies with different size, different capital intensity, different extents of internationalization and in different stage have significantly different strategies.