Sime Darby goes to Liberia.

Sime Darby goes to Liberia.

This case study discusses the issues arising from Sime Darby Corporation being given a concession agreement to develop 220,000 hectares of land with palm and rubber plantations in Liberia for a period of 63 years. Sime Darby Bhd is a Malaysian multinational company with diverse interests. Its main f...

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Main Authors: Sulaiman, Mohamed, Zandi Pour Joopari, GholamReza, A. Rahman, Akmal Nurhananie
Format: Article
Language:English
English
Published: Management Centre, IIUM 2011
Subjects:
HD28 Management. Industrial Management
HD61 Risk Management
HF5001 Business. Business Administration
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/24524/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/24524/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/24524/2/Sime_Darby_Goes_to_Liberia.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/24524/7/Case_2_Sime_Darby%28edSP%29%28RV%29.pdf
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spelling iium-245242012-07-16T09:07:50Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/24524/ Sime Darby goes to Liberia. Sulaiman, Mohamed Zandi Pour Joopari, GholamReza A. Rahman, Akmal Nurhananie HD28 Management. Industrial Management HD61 Risk Management HF5001 Business. Business Administration This case study discusses the issues arising from Sime Darby Corporation being given a concession agreement to develop 220,000 hectares of land with palm and rubber plantations in Liberia for a period of 63 years. Sime Darby Bhd is a Malaysian multinational company with diverse interests. Its main focus is plantations with its major crops being oil palm and rubber. It has large plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia. With land becoming scarce in Southeast Asia, Sime Darby looked for opportunities in Africa. They found a partner in Liberia which needed foreign investment to revive its economy after two civil wars. While the opportunities looked great on papers, questions arose over the risks involved. Management Centre, IIUM 2011-12-20 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/24524/2/Sime_Darby_Goes_to_Liberia.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/24524/7/Case_2_Sime_Darby%28edSP%29%28RV%29.pdf Sulaiman, Mohamed and Zandi Pour Joopari, GholamReza and A. Rahman, Akmal Nurhananie (2011) Sime Darby goes to Liberia. IIUM Journal of Case Studies in Management, 2 (2). pp. 15-20. ISSN 2180-2327 http://iiumgsm.com/journal/files/Vol2.2/Case%202%20Sime%20Darby%28edSP%29%28RV%29.pdf
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language English
English
topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
HD61 Risk Management
HF5001 Business. Business Administration
spellingShingle HD28 Management. Industrial Management
HD61 Risk Management
HF5001 Business. Business Administration
Sulaiman, Mohamed
Zandi Pour Joopari, GholamReza
A. Rahman, Akmal Nurhananie
Sime Darby goes to Liberia.
description This case study discusses the issues arising from Sime Darby Corporation being given a concession agreement to develop 220,000 hectares of land with palm and rubber plantations in Liberia for a period of 63 years. Sime Darby Bhd is a Malaysian multinational company with diverse interests. Its main focus is plantations with its major crops being oil palm and rubber. It has large plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia. With land becoming scarce in Southeast Asia, Sime Darby looked for opportunities in Africa. They found a partner in Liberia which needed foreign investment to revive its economy after two civil wars. While the opportunities looked great on papers, questions arose over the risks involved.
format Article
author Sulaiman, Mohamed
Zandi Pour Joopari, GholamReza
A. Rahman, Akmal Nurhananie
author_facet Sulaiman, Mohamed
Zandi Pour Joopari, GholamReza
A. Rahman, Akmal Nurhananie
author_sort Sulaiman, Mohamed
title Sime Darby goes to Liberia.
title_short Sime Darby goes to Liberia.
title_full Sime Darby goes to Liberia.
title_fullStr Sime Darby goes to Liberia.
title_full_unstemmed Sime Darby goes to Liberia.
title_sort sime darby goes to liberia.
publisher Management Centre, IIUM
publishDate 2011
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/24524/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/24524/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/24524/2/Sime_Darby_Goes_to_Liberia.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/24524/7/Case_2_Sime_Darby%28edSP%29%28RV%29.pdf
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