Compare Singapore and Malaysia as a possible location for: (i) a PC assembly plant, (ii) a wafer factory, (iii) a regional maintenance centre, (iv) a customer training centre for international...

Compare Singapore and Malaysia as a possible location for: (i) a PC assembly plant, (ii) a wafer factory, (iii) a regional maintenance centre, (iv) a customer training centre for international customers, (v) a chemical processing plant. According to Ferdows (1997), what are the differences between a ‘contributor’ factory and an ‘outpost’ factory? What are the new roles that De Meyer and Vereecke (1995) assign to ‘foreign’ factories?