When It Comes to FDI,Granular Holdings,Inc

question 113

Multiple Choice

When it comes to FDI,Granular Holdings,Inc.makes greenfield investments in various foreign countries and fully manages all foreign operations on its own.Granular Holdings' FDI approach is risky because of the problems associated with

• A)sharing a valuable technological know-how with a potential competitor.
• B)an increase in transportation costs,especially for those products that have a low value-to-weight ratio.
• C)doing business in a different culture where the rules of the game may be very different.
• D)the possibility of an increase in trade barriers such as import tariffs or quotas.
• E)increased production costs.

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