Question

Identify the parent country, host country or countries, and third country or countries in the following example: A global soft-drink company called Cold Cola is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. It operates production facilities in Athens, Greece and in Jakarta, Indonesia. The company has assigned a manager from Boston to head the Athens facility and a manager from Hong Kong to manage the Jakarta facility. (No plagiarism please, minimum 100 words please)

Answer 1

Parent country refers to the country where the companies originally belong to. In the question, Cold cola basically belongs to Atlanta, Georgia. Therefore Georgia is a parent country for cold cola.

Host country refers to a country in which the company is located; but it originally belongs to other country. Host countries host the business of other countries; foreign countries operate their business in host countries.

Therefore, the host countries here are Athens, Greece and in Jakarta, Indonesia because Cold cola is operating their business that originally belongs to Georgia.

Third countries are those countries where the employees work in a country that neither belongs to a host country nor to a parent country. The employees are drawn from other countries as selected to work in countries where neither it has its headquarters nor it that employee belongs to that country.

Therefore, the countries in the question are Boston and Hong Kong because employees are drawn from a third country which is neither host country nor parent country.