Your company wants to take advantage of the growing Asian market and plans to build a manufacturing
Question:
Your company wants to take advantage of the growing Asian market and plans to build a manufacturing facility in the southeast region to support the expansion. Management identified a set of critical factors to evaluate the prospective location, as shown in the table below; they used a rating system of 1 (least desirable) to 100 (most desirable) to evaluate each factor.
Factor | Weight | Rating Scale (1-100) | |||
Taiwan | Thailand | Singapore | |||
Technology | 0.15 | 85 | 95 | 40 | |
Level of Education | 0.15 | 85 | 20 | 95 | |
Economic aspects | 0.20 | 70 | 65 | 75 | |
Social aspects | 0.10 | 85 | 50 | 85 | |
Political risk | 0.40 | 30 | 70 | 70 |
First, identify which locationyou would recommend based on the current scores shown in the table.
If political unrest broke out in Singapore, lowering the political risk score for that locationto 60, would this change your original conclusion? Indicate your original and updated recommendation, respectively, based exclusively on the multi-criteria scores.
A- Singapore and Thailand B- Singapore and Singapore C- Taiwan and Taiwan D- Thailand and Singapore E- Thailand and Taiwan |