Globalization and Organization Behavior

Globalization is something that affects us all from our clothes, to our food, and shoes. It has changed the world permanently, for both better and worse. The word Globalization has had numerous meanings throughout history; it was also acknowledged at one point in 1930 as an interpretation of human experience (“Oxford English Dictionary”, 2010). There have been disagreement by scholars with the roots of globalization for some time; however, critics claimed that globalization was created in the modern era as some scholars believe that the origin can be followed through a history of events. A perfect illustration of this is the economist Andre Frank, who asserted that there were traces of globalization in the third millennium B.C. during the imperialist age. Other scholars dispute that there were globalization economies that occur throughout the Hellenistic Era and Islamic Golden Age (Moore & Lewis, 2009).
It is believed, by economists, that the spread of the Greek culture in the Hellenistic Era was an early practice of economic globalization. Globalization was influenced by culture with a diversity of food that was found in many different areas. The Jews and Muslims resulted in the globalization of crops, trade, knowledge, and technology in the Islamic Golden Age. Then, Christopher Columbus, in the Age of Discovery, discovered the New World in 1492 and a globalization of trade of gold, spices, and timber were all traded between Africa, Brazil, and Brazil. As an outcome, this presented international business centers in which there where enormous widespread exchange of animals, foods, and diseases amongst the Eastern and Western hemispheres (Moore & Lewis, 2009). Globalization is much more complicated in today’s society than it was back in the Middle Ages. According to the business magazine China Staff, “a typical