As a business expansion director, Shana's goal is to look for potential locations for her company's planned expansion to other countries. There are many options, some of which include maintaining the business's head office in Kuala Lumpur. Other options send company representatives to foreign operations when necessary, or establishing separate operation facilities abroad and hiring locals as managers. Shana is considering forming a partnership with a company from Singapore that will create an entirely new company called Half Moon. What kind of enterprise will Half Moon be?

a. a strategic alliance

b. a foreign subsidiary

c. a joint venture

d. a domestic merger