You are the CEO of a midsize, technology software company in Saudi Arabia and want to take your company global and offer your software worldwide. You will need to open offices in nations around the world.
Would you not open offices in nations with high political and legal risks and just focus on a nation with low political and legal risks to opening a new location? What are the pros and cons for each strategy
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Post from the instructor:
Hello colleagues -
As I was reading your initial posts, I started thinking of the economic concept known as the "risk-return tradeoff", which could be quite applicable in this discussion! Essentially, there is a positive association between risk and returns - activities with higher risks should typically generate higher returns in order for investors to be interested in undertaking them.
You may want to take a look at this collection of articles on risk andreturns:https://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/College/riskandreturn.html