International Trade Competitiveness of Developed Economies
Conduct a comprehensive country risk analysis and international trade competitiveness analysis to determine the optimal location of FDI Germany, Japan or the U.S.
You are the executive vice president of global business development for Manchester Sensormatic Inc., a $1billion Australian semiconductor company headquartered in Sydney. The CEO has given you the directive to lead a FDI project to build a $250mil semiconductor fabrication plant in one of three prospective final candidate developed economies. You are to identify an opportunity for doing business in either Germany, Japan or the U.S. Each project/proposal has risks and opportunities associated with doing business in the prospective country. Your objective is to research, analyze and evaluate the selected country’s risks/opportunities and international trade competitiveness. Evaluate your options for doing business in this country and make a recommendation to management as to whether or not the chosen country is a favorable environment for the FDI.
After describing the FDI proposal [make up a fictional proposal for a $250mil FDI]submit a 1,040 –1,450-word project overview and proposal [APA paper] to management as follows:
• States the objectives of your analysis.
• Provides detailed descriptions of how you will go about preparing your analysis, including; 1) a detailed description of data source(s) and the analytical model(s) to be used to prepare your analysis, and 2) provides detailed descriptions of the measures of prospective country’s international trade competitiveness.
• A detailed analysis describing the research findings..
• A detailed analysis describing the recommendation.
• Identifies two reasons why the recommendation should be accepted and two reasons why the recommendation needs to be further refined before it can be accepted.