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The business world is becoming increasingly global. As a result of this, many companies, such as Costa Coffee and Dyson, have changed their strategies in relation to the markets they target or where they produce. Does the increasingly global nature of business mean that all organisations need to change their strategies significantly to achieve higher profits? Justify your answer with reference to Costa Coffee, Dyson and/or other organisations that you know.…
Neil Kokemuler, How Does Globalization Affect the Way a Company Does Business? Retrieved from http://www.ehow.com/info_8678424_globalization-affect-way-company-business.html#ixzz2QqItJ2E4…
Globalisation is the integration of the world’s domestic economies into one single international market. It can also be defined as the ‘death of distance’ (Cairncross, 1997). Globalisation allows for the free trade of goods and services between nations; it allows workers to be employed more easily around the world; it allows businesses to benefit from foreign direct investment (FDI) and it allows markets to develop at a faster rate due to the interchange of new technological advances and intellectual knowledge. The process of globalisation is motivated largely by the desire of multinational corporations to increase profit but also by the motivation of individual national governments to tap into the wider macroeconomic and social benefits that come from greater trade in goods, services and the free flow of financial capital.…
References: Bethel University (2011). Business, Government and the International Economy, Boston, IL: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.Dapice, D. (2006, February 2). Unpopular Globalization: Why So Many Are Opposed. Unpopular Globalization: Why So Many Are Opposed. Retrieved September 19, 2014, from http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/unpopular-globalization-why-so-many-are-opposed…
On the threshold of 21st century, international communities have been drastically globalised or internationalised as the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which is the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), launched in 1995. As many countries agreed to open to foreign intercourse, international trade, financial markets and foreign investment have been rapidly grown as well as the changes in culture have been undergone. The term ‘globalisation’, in this manner, refers to ‘a process of increasing international dependence in which countries become more integrated with one another economically and culturally.’ (Bentley et al., 1999, p.177) It is generally supposed that the origin of current globalisation was from the end of the Cold War. The American president in the late 1980s, George H. W. Bush, proclaimed ‘new world order’ which involved that “countries would cooperate peacefully as participants in one worldwide market, pursuing their interests while sharing commitments to basic human values.” (Lechner and Boli, 2004, p.7) In other words, economic and political interdependence would lead to more shared interests, which would help to grow economy and create both wealth and solidarity. The spread of market-orientated policies and individual rights promised to improve the well-being of billions of people. However, this positive perspective on globalisation has been strongly criticised by many socialists who see globalisation as the latest stage in the development of international capitalism. They have been argued that globalisation is westernization by another name, that is, it undermines the social and cultural unity of other cultures and is therefore exploitative, oppressive and harmful to most people in many places, especially in developing countries. Moreover, surprisingly, even developed countries are also undergoing some disadvantages from globalisation, leading to social problems. As Waters (1995) suggested, therefore,…
A wide debate on how globalization affects global governance has taken place during the last years. Globalists and sceptics have argued about the transformations going on, their nature and importance. As Chanda notes, throughout history, interconnections between states and people have been growing (Chanda, 2008). However, globalization seems to have pushed these changes to a point in which a new global order arises, threatening to transform the essence of international politics.…
Globalisation is basically the operation, integration, and competitiveness of organisations in the economy on a worldwide scale. Rather than being nationally confined, the activities of these organisations are more self-governing. Globalisation affects the nature of business ethics and social obligations. As large organisations embrace a more global viewpoint, it shall have an important impact on the wider setting of organizational behavior and management (Mullins and Christy, 2013: 22).…
Globalization is not a recent concept. It means that the worldwide, virtually instantaneous interdependence about many aspects of economic and cultural life within a nation or state has expanded across borders either intentionally or unintentionally. Now this nation or a state 's independence to control events within its borders is challenged by international corporations, economic globalization, trade, transnational crime and the increase in global communications and developments in technology.…
Currently in international circles there is a great debate over globalisation and whether it is a force for good or bad. The statement oversimplifies the matter, of course. But the issue of globalisation and our collective response to it promises to define who prospers and who does not well into the 21st century.…
The factors of globalization have a wide impact on the state sovereignty. There are increasing political, economic, and social forces that degrade the importance and authority of states creating an avenue for a more incorporation. This has put the question of whether or not the factors of globalization did decrease the sovereignty of states. The primary issue being debated is largely concerning the prospect of the state sovereignty. Will the state maintain its key role in the international system or be overshadowed. The state system has evolved over time and the present modern state is arguably of a Western concept. There are other forms of governance over the past centuries but are seen as failed as state system came to dominate the international system. However, due to global forces pressure is building up threaten to undermine the modern states. The future role of states is now in doubt, even continued existence of states as sovereign entities. From this view there are two contending arguments that are for and against the question of the survival of state sovereignty. Stephen Krasner on one hand believes that the forces of globalisation do not and should not endanger the existence of the state, as states have the ability to continue to exist as a sovereign entity. On the other hand, Kimberly Weir argued that since the world progressively more interdependent the position of states has become outdated. This has put the hypothesis of whether the present model of governance nevertheless the best model for the future.…
Globalisation has had a significant effect on the nature of politics. Of the largest 100 economies in the world, 51 are corporations; only 49 are countries. Multinational corporations are a significant force challenging the concept of a national economy. In the modern world, national governments have much less control over their economies than previously.…
GlobalisationGlobalisation has become very important over the last two decades or so, a period. As a word it has existed since the 1960s. The dictionary definition is a great deal drier. Globalisation (n) is the "process enabling financial and investment markets to operate internationally, largely as a result of deregulation and improved communications" (Collins) or - from the US - to "make worldwide in scope or application" (Webster). Globalisation can be understood or characterized by intensification of global interconnectedness between both states and non-state actors. It is a multidimensional process involving technological, political, economic, and cultural issues. It implies lessening of the significance of territorial boundaries and, theoretically, of government- directed political and economic structures and processes.…
Globalization and State: an overview. Group of Experts on the United Nations Programme in Public Administration and Finance, Fifteenth session, 2000…
IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON THE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FUNCTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A CASE STUDY OF KENYA PUBLIC CORPORATIONS Hazel Gachoka Gachunga1…