- Longer
Term
- Macro Globalization Issues
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Extent
of multi-country regional integration (eg, NAFTA, EU Eastern
Expansion, MERCOSUR, etc.)
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Increasing
Technology penetration & applications (PCs, Internet, Mobile,
etc.)
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Regional
and country-specific political stability & security threats
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- Global Emerging Trends
- for Corporate Locational
Strategies
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Specific
industry sector characteristics and trends relative to
competitiveness
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Global,
regional and national market sector trends
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Overall
individual corporate business strategies & existing operations
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Corporate
sub-units strategies & requirements (eg, supply chains,
alliances, work force, end-users, etc.)
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Detailed
jurisdictional characteristics &
trends of potential locations (see next table).
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- Preface
to table below:
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In many of the larger developing countries (eg, China, India, Brazil)
traditional economic variables such as the availability of cheap
labor, access to natural resources and domestic market size will
continue to remain prime determinants regarding corporate investment
and locational choices. However, relative to the more industrialized
countries, other factors and trends are increasing important, as
suggested below.
- Developed
Countrys’ Jurisdictional Characteristics & Trends
- Influencing
Locational Investment
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Extent
of complementary knowledge-based local and regional resources
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Degree
of supportive and transparent commercial, legal and communications
infrastructure
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Extent
of government policies favorable to globalization, private
enterprise and innovation
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Relative
ranking of host country political stability
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Relative
security regarding terrorism potentials, locationally and
politically
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Quality
and reliability of local and regional infrastructure
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Note:
The
above developed country locational choice trends are evidenced by
surveys of the rankings of various countries by business executives as
published in EIU’s World Investment 2002, the World
Bank,
Oxford Intelligence and by other leading
research groups.
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