Political risk: Interpreting the International context

Abstract

Introduction: Since the beginning of the economic opening processes in the 1990s, investment flows have increased (FDI) worldwide. However, not all countries are proposed as ideal destinations for recipients of FDI, it must have an attractive economic, political and social landscape.
 Objetive: This research has the objective of studying the influence that the political risk may have on the decision-making on the subject of FDI by entrepreneurs, in particular, Colombians
 Methodology: The areas from where it has been analyzed, a series of low criteria is proposed. Is considered. It has been analyzed, a scale of value has been generated for each one, through those that have been studied. Means of stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis.
 Results: The feasible weight space results point at the United States as the best destination for Colombian investment, followed by Brazil, the United Kingdom and Chile; while Panama, Spain and Mexico are not favored by any weighting.
 Conclusions: This work might be helpful in decision-making processes intended to reduce the uncertainty that is proper of the external environment.