Ashford BUS 616 Week 5 DQ 1

Create a hypothetical global corporation and answer the five basic questions that deal with production:

• Where should production be located and should it be concentrated or dispersed?

• What should be the long-term strategic role of foreign productions sites?  Should the firm abandon a foreign site if factor costs change, or is there value to maintaining an operation at a given location even if economic conditions change?

• Should the firm own foreign production or should production be outsourced?

• How should a globally-dispersed supply chain be managed?

• Should the firm manage the logistics or outsource their management

  References:

  Financial Times. (2016, March 13). Definition of global corporation. Retrieved from Financial Times: http://lexicon.ft.com/Term?term=global-corporation

  Hill, C. (2011). International Business: Completing in the Global Marketplace. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.