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to complete the following exercises: 1. Just as the worldwide export of manufactured products and commercial services varies across regions of the world, so does the difference between nonfinancial and financial transnational corporations (TNCs). The World Investment Report provides electronic access to comprehensive statistics on the top financial TNCs worldwide. So you can compare the top 10 nonfinancial TNCs from the previous chapter with the current exercise, locate the list of the 50 largest financial TNCs. Which countries are represented in the top 10 on each list (nonfinancial and financial TNCs)? Is there any difference in the countries represented in the two rankings? Which three TNCs score highest on this survey’s Internationalization Index (II)? How does this compare to the top three nonfinancial institutions? What is the difference between this survey’s II and the previous chapter’s ranking based on the TNI? Why would the United Nations use two different methods to measure internationalization? 2. Your company is considering opening a new factory in Latin America. As such, the strategic management division is in the process of evaluating the specific locations for such an operation. The pool of candidate countries has been narrowed to Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil. By using the country fact sheets available through a resource provided by the United Nations at the globalEDGE Web site, prepare a short report comparing the foreign direct investment (FDI) environment and other relevant regulations in these three countries. |