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Strategic management Globalization It has been said that the world is becoming a global village in which there are no boundaries to trade and communication. Do the benefits of globalization outweigh the drawbacks? Yesterday's video contained some useful ideas, but here are some more ideas from my ebook: Positives of globalisation: • Business is becoming increasingly international. • A global economy means free trade between countries. • This can strengthen political relationships. • Globalisation

Xiaoping, enabled China to gradually open its economy while preserving its political system. Since the 1980’s China has become increasingly a major, first in the industry workforce. In industries such as textile and manufactured goods, China leads the world in production. Thanks to a large labor force they are able to produce these consumer goods and keep the prices low while still keeping the exchange rate highly competitive. It is this type of practices in China’s now modern economy that has earned

Albert Hirschman’s celebrated metaphors. Harold Levitt’s “Globalization of Markets” or Kenichi Ohmae’s Borderless World promise boundless prosperity and consumer joy as a result of globalization, i.e. the global as civilizing. In sharp contrast to this view, the historian Paul Kennedy warns in Preparing for the Twenty-First Century against our lack of structures to deal with a global world, while political economist Dani Rodrik rings a similar bell of alarm in Has Globalization Gone Too Far? concerning

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expending trade, americanisation, commerce, capitals, borderless market, communication, developped and developping countries, multinationals * What are the problems of globalisation ? - increased flow of skilled and non-skilled jobs from developed to developing nations as corporations seek out the cheapest labor - increased likelihood of economic disruptions in one nation effecting all nations - corporate influence of nation-states far exceeds that of civil society organizations and average

Commercial Transactions _ Cross-border rights and obligations. _ International Laws. _ Cross-cultural expectations. _ Enforcement. 5 Legal System _ Civil law or Continental law or Romano-Germanic law is the predominant system of law in the world. _ Civil law as a legal system is often compared with common law. _ Common Law draws abstract rules from specific cases. _ Civil Law starts with abstract rules, which judges must then apply to the various cases before them. 6 Civil Law _ Civil

Comparative politics: State & Societies “Sovereignty is an illusion for any state that joins a regional bloc – especially in the age of globalisation”. Discuss Since the end of World War II in 1945, the world had become smaller every day: the development of new technologies, especially in transportation and in communication has considerably reduced the distance between people. Now, thanks to the internet, you can follow in live the result of an Australian rugby match from your living room, in

through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, and the spread of technology. Goods and services that appear in a country will be immediately promoted and commercialised in the other countries. The globalization affects the business world and exerts a wide influence on society. Globalization and its consequences on trade and international finance have powerful effects on national economies. They favor the progression of emerging countries to the detriment of others Third World countries

development of a world wide character of economic activities the globalization represent the third development stage Stage 1 Internationalisation Growth of export flows in the worl> Stage 2 Transnationalisation Stage 3 globalisation THOMAS OATLEY The globalization world economy: Globalization and income: rising poverty widening inequality Globalization and Sweatshops Trade and environnement WTO AND THE WORLD TRADE SYSTEM ‘(oatley) Power and interest and the world trade system Hegemonic

FAIR-TRADE The term fair-trade refers to a model of international trade which promotes the payment of fair prices and improves social and environmental conditions for farmers in developing countries. The farmers export products such as coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea bananas, honey, cotton, wine and fresh fruit. The Fair-trade Foundation, which endorses products with its logo, was registered as a charity in 1992. The Fair-trade mark is a guarantee that poor farmers in the developing world are getting