business climate

business climate Your task: BACKGROUND You are employed in a company which is considering expanding internationally. You can pick any industry for your company and select ONE of these three geographic areas: Latin America, West Africa, and Southeast Asia/Pacific. Start by shortly describing your company (it doesn’t have to be a real company) and its intentions to expand internationally. Then answer the following questions. QUESTIONS Q.1. Give a general overview of the business climate in the region and in a country by country basis. How easy / difficult is it to conduct business in the selected countries? (NOTE: World Bank’s Doing Business Report and Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom are sources of interest for this question). Discuss also some recent trends of Foreign Direct Investment in the area (see World Investment Report). Q. 2. How do these findings affect you company’s decision to expand into that area? More specifically, what should your company keep in mind when entering these countries? Given your specific industry, what do you think should be the appropriate strategy (Home replication, Multidomestic strategy, Global strategy, Transnational strategy)? Finally, given the chosen strategy and the characteristics of the area, discuss the structure of your international operations. TECHNICAL GUIDE The answers to your questions are to ONLY come from the textbook. You have between 3 and 4 pages single spaced, 1” margins all around, of 12 point Times New Roman font to answer the questions (between 1200 and 1600 words). There is no need to retype the question. The sources suggested above will be attached as well. NOTE : stay on topic and be concise.