Scenario:
You are on a scouting mission to evaluate a prospective location for a new regional production facility for your manufacturing company, which makes heavy equipment for construction (you compete globally with companies like Caterpillar and Komatsu). Your company would also like to use this production base as a regional distribution center, to export your products to nearby countries. Your boss is asking you to write a preliminary report addressing these primary concerns:
How easy/difficult is it to establish a business operation in this country?
Does this country already produce and trade in this industry or in related industries?
Does this country have adequate institutions to support a successful global business?
Would the company be better off locating in a nearby country instead?
