Are multination corporations such as Wal-Mart helpful or harmful to the global economy? To a lesser extent‚ multinational corporation such as Wal-Mart are harmful to the global economy. Multinational corporation is a corporation or company that is registered in more than one country or that has operations in two or more countries. Global economy generally refers to the economy‚ which is based on economies of all of the world’s countries’ national economies. Also‚ global economy can be seen as the
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Eliminating Barriers to Cross-Cultural Communication through Curricular Interventions By David Dankwa-Apawu (Lecturer) Ghana Institute of Journalism P.O. Box GP 667 Accra‚ Ghana +233208704133 +233302228336 dvdankwa@yahoo.co.uk 1 ABSTRACT With the world fast becoming a global village‚ communicating across cultures has become an inevitable reality. On one hand‚ cross-cultural communication or intercultural communication presents a fine opportunity to foster global peace and prosperity
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Why go global? In today’s world‚ it feels necessary for growth-minded business to go global. “How to take your company Global"‚ is an article in Entrepreneur magazine that discusses this topic and also perfectly relates to some of the concepts that were talked about in class. This article talked about of some of the advantages and motivations to grow your business internationally .It also discussed concepts including importation and exportation ‚ and how these go along with the topic of going
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Multinational companies are giant firms with their origin in one country‚ but their operations extending beyond the boundaries of that nation. For reasons of marketing‚ financial and technological superiority‚ these multinationals are generally considered as a sine qua non of the modernisation of an economy. They have been responsible for the rapid economic liberalisation in India in 1991‚ the question of the entry of multinational corporations (MNCs) has assumed significance. Multinationals
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affected way of doing business by multinational organization by looking and four aspects‚ which are cultural differences‚ ethical issues‚ strategy and industrial or business. 1 1. CULTURAL DIFFERENCES Culture plays a very important aspect in various aspects of business especially for multinational corporations (MNC) operation on a global level. Cultural variations affect the way a firm conducts its business in different geographical regions and around different cultural settings so that they widen their
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America: The Multinational Society In “America: The Multinational Society”‚ Ishmael Reed (209) states that American culture is like “bouillabaisse”‚ consists of different layers of culture backgrounds all over the world. He starts the essay with an example of a Chinese woman eating a pizza in front of a Ty Thuan Duc’s Vietnamese grocery store (207) from New York Times. This example gives the readers a vivid image of their everyday life. People from different races‚ speaking different languages
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Sony corporation is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Tokyo‚ Japan‚ and one of the world’s largest media conglomerate with revenue of US$ 88.7 billion ( as of 2008) based on Minato‚ Tokyo. Its name is derived from Sonus‚ the Greek goddess of sound. The first market mix element is Product. A product is anything that can be offered to a market for attention‚ acquisition‚ use or consumption that might satisfy a need or want. Product decision normally base on Brand name‚ Functionality
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In the reading “America: The Multinational Society‚” written by Ishmael Reed and “The Cult of Ethnicity‚” by Arthur M. Schlesinger JR.‚ the authors point out the issues of cultural diversity in the United States. First‚ I appreciated an opening quote of the “America: The Multinational Society.” The quote brilliantly demonstrates a vivid rich picture of America. I still remembered the moment when I had met a German roommate‚ a Jewish teacher‚ the Hungarian‚ Hispanic‚ Saudi‚ English‚ African-American
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4. BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES Barriers is anything to do with the interference of the message being receive or understood by the other person who is the receiving the message (www.wikipedia.org‚ 27 Mar 2013). Barriers is one of the reason why misunderstanding or communication breakdowns. It’s very important to understand and to be aware of the barriers and of the common barriers in the business world is a cultural barrier. Cultural barriers are “the same category of words
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1.0 Introduction Good morning ladies and gentleman‚ today I would like to talk about communication barriers and suggestion to overcome these barriers. Communication is neither transmission of message nor message itself. It is the mutual exchange of understanding‚ originating with the receiver. Communication needs to be effectives in business and is essence of management. Effective communication is crucial at every level of an organization. However‚ the ability to communicate effectively does not
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