Criteria Arguments to exit
(examples)
Arguments to stay
(examples)
Financial Reduced revenues Reduced sales forecasts Opportunity to build market share as others exit
Increased costs Increased logistics costs Secure access to scarce resources
Risk management Increased political risk Reduce the risk of IPR expropriation
Ethical Ethical practices in own operations conflict with local law The company is asked to provide personal data on customers to the state Continued operations best protect the employees of the subsidiary
Ethical practices among business partners or suppliers Business partner supplies the military of a hostile host country Continued operations can protect technologies from falling into the ‘wrong’ hands
Ethical practices in the country The government of the host country starts a war Ethical practices of host country governments are not of concern to company stakeholders