To identify reasons that Japanese companies had chosen to be
in industrial complexes affected by the 2011 Thai floods, various
factors were sorted out into external and internal ones. External
factors include investment policies in favor of foreign companies
by the Board of Investment (BOI) and the Industrial Estate Authority
of Thailand (IEAT), deregulation regarding taxation and
foreign workers, efforts by the Thai government to attract specific
industries such as cars, and Thailand’s high-quality and inexpensive
labor [15].