...about transnational flows in two distinct but related areas; biomedical technology and digital technology including virtual reality.” (Gilbert 2006). The play follows a young man, Om who signs up to the organ selling company Interplanta in order to earn money for his poverty stricken family, only to discover that his and his families lives would change forever, being ruled and watched over by who is thought to be an all American blonde called Ginni. The play follows Om and his family and their struggle to keep their identity and sanity through the hands of the Western Interplanta and the Western society who made them. There is much evidence of post-colonialism and globalisation in Padmanabhan’s Harvest, such as dehumanisation and orientalism, however the main focus points of this essay are utopia and dystopia, capitalism and the advances in technology. It can be seen that a prominent theme in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest is the one of post-colonialism. Western countries have dominated the world since the sixteenth century, at one point Britain owned fifty per cent of the world, however much has changed, and many...
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...is globalization? According to our text book, globalization is “a term referring to a trend by which peoples and nations has become more interdependent” (Spielvogel 679). When using the term of globalization most people are talking about our global economy and global culture. Over the last forty years new technologies have changed the way we communicate. Not only can we communicate with friends and family around the world with the touch of a button but we can use the same technology to buy, sell and distribute almost anything to almost anywhere in the world. This has not only changed our bottom line of profits but has also changed the mindset of how we view the world and how we do business and communicate with others. In this paper I intend to describe the main characteristics of globalization of the Twentieth century and discuss some of the many elements that have led us to this point in history. There are many characteristics of globalization. Arvind Kumar, writer of the article “What are the Characteristics of Globalization” says that there are three distinct characteristics of globalization. The first is liberalization which is the, “freedom to start industry, trade or commerce in his country or abroad (Kumar).” The second characteristic is free trade. Kumar explains that, “Free trade is the absence of excessive government control over trade (Kumar).” He goes on to say that connectivity is the third, and last, distinct characteristic of globalization. The...
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...forces that promise to reshape the nature of management. It exposes the how, what, why, and when of organizational behavior, as viewed and practiced by managers. It also identifies the skills and competencies that leaders will need to create the ideal 21st century work atmosphere, such as intelligence, passion, a strong work ethic, a team orientation, and a genuine concern for people. Learning Objectives After completing this chapter, students should be able to: 1. Define in applied terms organizational behavior. 2. Describe the disciplines that have contributed to the field of organizational behavior. 3. Discuss the importance of understanding behavior in organizations. 4. Explain the time dimension model of measuring effectiveness. 5. Explain the relationship between quality and organizational effectiveness. Key Terms power of human resources—The ability to get things done in the way one wants them to be done. globalism—The interdependency of transportation, distribution, communication, and economic networks across international borders. cultural diversity—The vast array of differences created by cultural phenomena such as history, economic conditions, personality characteristics, language, norms, and mores. rapidity of change—The speed at which change occurs. Rapid change is found in many areas such as technology, demographics, globalism, and new products and services. psychological contract—An unwritten...
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...Case study Korean Pop, which is widely known as k-pop is gaining its popularity globally, and the word K-Pop is now recognizable among the global music industry. Many Korean pop singers are known, not only in Korea, or even Asia, but all around the world, such as BigBang, Wondergirls, SNSD, TVXQ, Psy and many more. They are the Korean bands that have been attracting followers from Asia, Europe and America, since the early years. The popularity of Korean contents, also known as ‘Hallyu’, are partly supported by the Korean cultural policy, that has many suggestion in regard to the cultural policy in outskirt countries under globalization. How, the popularity of Hallyu has cultural influence to its neighboring countries and attracted tourism and people to be interested in Korean’s language and culture. Academic Sources 1) Sterger, M.B. 2002. The Academic Debate over Globalization. In Globalism: The New Market Ideology, 17-41. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. In this article, Sterger talks about the different dimensions of globalization, which is globalization is an economic process, globalization is a Political process and Globalization is a cultural process. In relation to the case study that was chosen, figured that K-Pop was American cultural hegemony, Although music produced by American remain to still have a powerful presence of cultural in Korea’s music marketplace, its fans show themselves as rebels going further away from the mainstream culture, as foreigners who are...
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...The Global Business Environment Regional Trading Blocks Information Technology The Globalization of Human Capital The Global Manager’s Role The Political and Economic Environment The Legal Environment The Technological Environment ISSUES FOR REVIEW AND DISCUSSION I. The Global Business Environment A. Global management Global management is the process of developing strategies, designing and operating systems, and working with people around the world to ensure sustained competitive advantage. 1. Globalism “Global competition characterized by networks that bind countries, institutions and people in an interdependent global economy.” 2. Evidence/Indicators of Globalism The growth rate of the trade of goods has grown faster than the world production of goods. The European Union has now caught up with the United States to share the position of the world’s largest investor. 2011 AMERICAN CITY UNIVERSITY Page 1 of 28 MBA505 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT REV11A 3. Globalism Strategy Global companies are becoming less tied to specific locations and their operations and allies are spreading around the world as they source and coordinate resources and activities wherever needed. Companies that desire to remain competitive will have to develop a cadre of experienced international managers. 4. Small companies are also affected by and, in turn,...
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...models? UPS has been rated "America's most admired mail, package and freight delivery company" for sixteen consecutive years by surveys conducted by Fortune magazine, and in 1998 was named "world's most admired" in the same category. United Parcel Service (UPS) is one of America's ten largest airlines. It is the largest private user of cellular technology on earth. Its drivers' handheld computers make a million wireless calls a day. UPS also handles about six percent of the nation's daily gross domestic product. The $24 billion company (see Table 1 for historical financial data) has 330,000 employees, delivering 12 million packages a day to seven million customers. Company revenues for the quarter ending March 31, 1999, totaled $6.33 billion, up 8% compared to the $5.86 billion reported for the same period in 1998. Net income for the 1st quarter rose to $499 million compared to the $352 million reported for the same period in 1998, a 42% jump. As the world's largest package distribution company, UPS transports more than 3 billion parcels and documents annually (See Table 2 for industry data). UPS operates more than 500 aircraft, 157,000 vehicles and 2,400 package and sorting centers to provide service in more than 200 countries and territories (see Appendix 1 for facts). The company is committed to serving the needs of the global marketplace. James P. Kelly, 1 chairman and CEO, explained the goals of UPS in the new global information world: Microsoft has an advertising...
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...models? UPS has been rated "America's most admired mail, package and freight delivery company" for sixteen consecutive years by surveys conducted by Fortune magazine, and in 1998 was named "world's most admired" in the same category. United Parcel Service (UPS) is one of America's ten largest airlines. It is the largest private user of cellular technology on earth. Its drivers' handheld computers make a million wireless calls a day. UPS also handles about six percent of the nation's daily gross domestic product. The $24 billion company (see Table 1 for historical financial data) has 330,000 employees, delivering 12 million packages a day to seven million customers. Company revenues for the quarter ending March 31, 1999, totaled $6.33 billion, up 8% compared to the $5.86 billion reported for the same period in 1998. Net income for the 1st quarter rose to $499 million compared to the $352 million reported for the same period in 1998, a 42% jump. As the world's largest package distribution company, UPS transports more than 3 billion parcels and documents annually (See Table 2 for industry data). UPS operates more than 500 aircraft, 157,000 vehicles and 2,400 package and sorting centers to provide service in more than 200 countries and territories (see Appendix 1 for facts). The company is committed to serving the needs of the global marketplace. James P. Kelly, 1 chairman and CEO, explained the goals of UPS in the new global information world: Microsoft has an advertising...
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...business models? UPS has been rated "America's most admired mail, package and freight delivery company" for sixteen consecutive years by surveys conducted by Fortune magazine, and in 1998 was named "world's most admired" in the same category. United Parcel Service (UPS) is one of America's ten largest airlines. It is the largest private user of cellular technology on earth. Its drivers' handheld computers make a million wireless calls a day. UPS also handles about six percent of the nation's daily gross domestic product. The $24 billion company (see Table 1 for historical financial data) has 330,000 employees, delivering 12 million packages a day to seven million customers. Company revenues for the quarter ending March 31, 1999, totaled $6.33 billion, up 8% compared to the $5.86 billion reported for the same period in 1998. Net income for the 1st quarter rose to $499 million compared to the $352 million reported for the same period in 1998, a 42% jump. As the world's largest package distribution company, UPS transports more than 3 billion parcels and documents annually (See Table 2 for industry data). UPS operates more than 500 aircraft, 157,000 vehicles and 2,400 package and sorting centers to provide service in more than 200 countries and territories (see Appendix 1 for facts). The company is committed to serving the needs of the global marketplace. James P. Kelly, 1 chairman and CEO, explained the goals of UPS in the new global information world: Microsoft has an advertising slogan...
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...“Try to identify 2 ways in which globalisation has positively impacted IR and 2 ways in which its impact has been negative. Please be as specific as possible about the cause and effect relationship you are describing.” The global economy as a worldwide economic system began ca. 1500 with the rise and spread of commercialism and has evolved into an expanding system of industrial capitalism. The primary driver of globalization is rapid technological change in core countries and their ability to dominate production of consumer goods to the rest of the world. It involves the increasing interdependence of national economies, financial markets, trade, corporations, production, distribution, and consumer marketing. By its very nature, globalization draws attention to the economic and technological aspects of life, and to change at the level of culture or identity. Globalization draws attention to the role of transnational corporations in creating a global market and system of production; to capital markets in creating an integrated financial system; and to bodies such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in disseminating a particular view of the state's role within the international economy. The idea of globalization is the object of controversy. Some of the more dramatic and simplistic versions of the globalization thesis have been challenged by scholars and journalists who are skeptical about the actual extent of transnationalized economic activity. The hyperglobalist perspective...
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...involve not only interconnections across boundaries, but transform the quality of the social and the political inside nation-state societies. This is what I define as ‘cosmopolitanization’: cosmopolitanization means internal globalization, globalization from within the national societies. This transforms everyday consciousness and identities significantly. Issues of global concern are becoming part of the everyday local experiences and the ‘moral life-worlds’ of the people. They introduce significant conflicts all over the world. To treat these profound ontological changes simply as myth relies on a superficial and unhistorical understanding of ‘globalization’, the misunderstandings of neoliberal globalism. The study of globalization and globality, cosmopolitanization and cosmopolitanism constitutes a revolution in the social sciences (Beck, 2000a, 2002a; Cheah and Robbins, 1998; Gilroy, 1993; Shaw, 2000; Therborn, 2000; Urry, 2000). Of course, the new interest in cosmopolitanism has been critically associated with those elite Western individuals who were the fullest expression of European bourgeois capitalism and colonial empires. But we need Theory, Culture &...
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...spread of technology. However, globalization is usually recognized as being driven by a combination of economic, technological, sociocultural, political, and biological factors. The term can also refer to the transnational circulation of ideas, languages, or popular culture. Definitions An early description of globalization was penned by the American entrepreneur-turned-minister Charles Taze Russell who coined the term 'corporate giants' in 1897. However, it was not until the 1960s that the term began to be widely used by economists and other social scientists. It had achieved widespread use in the mainstream press by the later half of the 1980s. Since its inception, the concept of globalization has inspired numerous competing definitions and interpretations. The United Nations ESCWA has written that globalization "is a widely-used term that can be defined in a number of different ways. When used in an economic context, it refers to the reduction and removal of barriers between national borders in order to facilitate the flow of goods, capital, services and labour... although considerable barriers remain to the flow of labour.... Globalization is not a new phenomenon. It began in the late nineteenth century, but its spread slowed during the period from the start of the First World War until the third quarter of the twentieth century. This slowdown can be attributed to the inwardlooking policies pursued by a number of countries in order to protect their respective...
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...smaller during the past two decades because of globalization and the development of information technology. Asian people can purchase the products from America, European countries and India or vice versa. There is not just distribution of goods but also doing business with people around the world. Enterprises enter foreign markets in order to expand the market or look for resources or reduce cost etc. However, Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) not only need to know the political, legal and regulatory environment in host country but also the culture difference which is very important to lessen the cultural problems and know how to solve it wisely. Companies may be abandoned by customers or spend a lot of money to recover their reputation if MNEs’ managers do not understand the cultures of the countries they deal with. The influence of international trade liberalization has presented not only substantial opportunities but also some challenges for domestic and international companies (Watchravesringkan 2011). The aim of this essay is to discuss the importance of culture difference to MNEs. In this essay, culture and society will be discussed in the first part. The following part is about the importance of cultural difference to international managers. Finally, it will discuss the methods to understand cultural difference. Dowling & Liesch (2009) state that culture is a system of values and norms those is shared among a group of human beings and form a pattern for living when brought...
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...in this paper, encompasses efforts by a group of nations to enhance their economic, political, social, or cultural interaction. Such efforts can take on different forms, including regional cooperation, market integration, development integration, and regional integration. African leaders have long envisaged regionalism as a viable strategy to pursue with a view to uniting the continent both politically and economically. While regionalism in Africa has taken on different forms to accommodate the changing national, regional, and international environment, all organizations that aim to integrate regional economies in Africa have adopted market integration as a component of their strategy, with a view to increasing intra-regional trade. Market integration is the linear progression of degrees of integration beginning with a free trade area (or in some cases a preferential trade area) and ending with total economic integration. The model for such integration is the European Union (EU). Notwithstanding the fact that market integration has failed miserably on the continent,1 it continues to be highly regarded by most African leaders as a solution to Africa’ growing marginalization within the world economy. The creation of NAFTA s (North American Free Trade Agreement) and the movement toward EU monetary integration, only served to reinforce the commitment African leaders have toward market integration. In response to these events, the member states of the Organization of African Unity...
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...[pic][pic] [pic][pic] Top of Form [pic] Bottom of Form Syllabus | Exams | Websites | Resources | Glossary | Teachers Modern History Home > Modern History > International Studies in Peace and Conflict > The Cold War 1945-1991 > Overview of US-Soviet relations and the Cold War The Cold War 1945-1991 Overview of US-Soviet relations and the Cold War David Mclean Charles Sturt University Principal Focus: Students investigate key features and issues in the history of the Cold War 1945 - 1991 Outcomes Students: H1.1 describe the role of key features, issues, individuals, groups and events of select twentieth-century studies (Extract from Modern History Stage 6 Syllabus Board of Studies NSW 2004.) Key features and issues: • origins and development of the Cold War • influence of ideologies on the Cold War • impact of crises on changing superpower relations • the arms race • reasons for the end of the Cold War This is the transcript of a talk given at a seminar co-sponsored by the History Teachers’ Association of New South Wales and the US Information Service in Sydney on 2 September 1995. From this tutorial you will learn about: • influence of ideologies that led resulted in the division of the world into two opposed camps from 1945 • emerging differences between the superpowers Contents 1. US – Soviet relations were not synonymous with the Cold War 2. Chronology of the Cold War 3. Influence of ideologies of communism and capitalism on the Cold...
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...chapter concludes Essentials of Marketing by covering three broad concepts: 1) Evaluating marketing As indicated in Chapter 1, there are two levels of marketing: • the micro (managerial) level—concerns the marketing activities of an individual firm; and • the macro level—concerns how the whole marketing system works. 2) The key components of an innovative marketing plan. 3) Challenges facing marketers. Multimedia Lecture Support Package to Accompany Essentials of Marketing Lecture Script 20-2 This slide relates to material on p. 498. Summary Overview This chapter suggests that satisfaction and costs serve as criteria for evaluating the impact of marketing. Key Issues • A nation’s objectives affect the evaluation of marketing. • The social and economic objectives of a nation may differ depending on that nation’s socio-political structure. • Consumer satisfaction is the objective in the United States. • This objective is derived from a market-based economic system, and it implies that political freedom and economic freedom go hand in hand. • In the U. S., people have the right to live as they choose and to satisfy their economic and social needs as they choose. Discussion Question: How is the marketing concept related to the marketing objectives and realities that characterize the United States? Multimedia Lecture Support Package to Accompany Essentials of Marketing Lecture Script 20-3 This slide refers to material on p. 499-501. Summary Overview Since...
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