April 23‚ 2013 INTERNATIONAL MARKETING About the chapter “The CAGE Distance Framework” by Pankaj Ghemawat The CAGE Distance Framework The semi globalized state of the real world‚ in which borders continue to matter; the large differences arise at borders. The differences are in terms of the distances between countries along a variety of Cultural‚ Administrative / political‚ Geographic and Economic (CAGE) dimensions. As a result‚ the CAGE framework not only helps identify the key differences
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affecting her country‚ Mexico. She painted something to show her culture and how it is being ruined. The factories‚ Maquiladoras‚ are effectuating the air in Mexico with all its pollution and it slowly affects the culture and causes chaos because the new American culture is ruining the Mexican culture. They are ruining the overall landscape when they build more and more factories. She uses Ford‚ a big car manufacturer‚ to show how its pollution is coming into Mexico. It could also mean how it is taking over
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whether United States should execute such plans. Although it cannot be said that the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement had an overall negative impact for Mexico‚ this documentary paid more attention to rural regions of Mexico where infrastructures were less developed. Therefore‚ these regions benefited least from NAFTA as they were heavily dependent upon agriculture farming. Free trade had brought these rural farmers to its knees since cheaper good were being imported from the United
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shifting labor demand to highly skilled workers for highly technical work. These developments in the industry are likely to heighten resistance of employees and workers to displacement in the industry particularly due to the lifetime employment agreements with manufacturing companies. ("Research articles‚" 2011) II. How might the employee skills‚ management practices‚ and automobile manufacturing companies change in the future? How would you expect the managerial trends discussed in Chapter 2
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Scientific Management --- Early 1900’s Systematic analysis of work methods Scientific method is used to improve work efficiency Frederick Taylor – Principles of Scientific Management Determine “best way” to do work method and standardize Financial incentive Rest breaks Moved pig iron‚ was able to go from moving 12 tons a day to 48 tons Soldiering: found that workers were deliberately slowing pace of work Rate buster: a worker who wanted to go faster than the soldiering pace‚ much like
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The North American Free Trade (NAFTA) might be considered one of Chiapas worst nightmares. The poor people of Chiapas‚ Mexico have always been known as the poorest city in Mexico. On January 1st‚ 1994 the people formed a rebellion. The rebels called themselves Zapatista’s. They knew that the North American Free Trade Associations would be passed. They got to the conclusion that the only thing that they could do was to rebel. NAFTA would cause many problems for the farmers if the Zapatista’s did
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Article Analysis Brandon Espinoza MGT/445 June 17‚ 2011 Professor Charles Parker Negotiation Strategy Article Analysis The best alternative to a negotiated agreement is what every organization needs to fulfill their wants and needs. This is an advantage because they clench a clear target to which they can match any assigned agreement. The two articles discussed within this paper state two alternative negotiation situations that are compared to my current work setting. The first article involves
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losers in an agreement. In this section‚ I will assess the extent to which NAFTA helped expand trade and investment flow among member countries as well as discuss the winners and the losers of the agreement. NAFTA is the largest free trade area‚ with around 450 million people and links economies of the United States‚ Canada‚ and Mexico. NAFTA boosted economic growth‚ profits‚ and jobs for these countries as well as lowered prices for consumers. One huge area that NAFTA improved was trade among its
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Negotiations MGT/445 July 11‚ 2011 Global Negotiation Situation Article Analysis Negotiation Strategy Article Analysis The best alternative to a negotiated agreement is what every organization needs to fulfill their wants and needs. This is an advantage because they clench a clear target to which they can match any assigned agreement. The two articles discussed within this paper state two alternative negotiation situations that are compared to my current work setting. The first article involves
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livestock feed but most of its corn production is purposed for making “tortillas” which is the main aliment of Mexico’s citizens * With the NAFTA agreement Mexico has allowed itself to become dependent of highly subsidized cheap U.S corn * Many developing countries are beginning to emerge on the market and are starting to compete with the USA in corn trade * For Mexico it is important that the production is modernized in order to achieve its self-sufficiency and the USA should re-evaluate the
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