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 |