comparing Mexico and Thailand
- Sustainability Measures and Environmental Regulation: Briefly describe sustainability measures and regulations in each country, and analyze how they may work well with or create conflict or tension with your U.S.-based company.
- Cost and Workforce: Briefly describe each country’s workforce for the creation of computer components and the cost of that labor.
- Government Regulation: Briefly describe the overall regulatory environment of each country. Take the most likely mode of entry into consideration for each country.
- Intellectual Property: Briefly describe the risk of intellectual property being stolen by creating a manufacturing location in each country.
- Reputation: Briefly describe the ways an organization can face reputational risk through outsourcing its manufacturing to each country.
- Recommendations: Based on your evaluations of the key attributes and requirements, recommend one country that is the most suitable location for your client’s new manufacturing facility, and one country that would be the least suitable location. Justify your recommendations with evidence from your evaluations and the course resources.