MANAGEMENT David Arnold Julian Birkinshaw Omar Toulan T o international companies, there is something both inevitable and desirable about the trend towards globalization of the sales function, usually referred to as global account management. It is inevitable because major business customers are generally well down the road to globalization in supply chain management, and from their major suppliers worldwide they increasingly demand contracts with standardized terms in areas such as product specification
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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION The globalization of culture – the effect upon culture of the “increasing connection of the world and its people” – is perhaps nowhere more visible than in the changing nature of the relationship between the world’s youth and their sense of identity (Solomon & Scuderi 2002:13). It has become commonplace to think of the world’s youth as that part of the community who are most receptive, or, alternatively, susceptible to, foreign cultural practices. If childhood
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Reviews Koichi Iwabuchi, Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. 275 pp., including references and index. ISBN 0-8223-2891-7. In this book, Koichi Iwabuchi, a Cultural Studies scholar based in Japan, explores intellectual discourses, marketing strategies and audience consumption of Japanese popular culture in a transnational Asian context. In other words, he examines Japan's encounter with a 'modern' Asia by
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DOES CULTURE MATTER? BY SHRUTI BALABHADRA DM16144 In the yearly part of the 21st century Thomas L. Friedman published the bestseller “The World is Flat: A brief History of the 21st century” which was an international hit. The author stated that the world has become a flat and levelled field with respect to commerce thus in turn giving equal opportunity to competitors across the globe. Further, it stated that we have reached a time where geographical, cultural and historical divisions have
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innovative perspective to support the strategic decision making process of certain management sections. During this research proposal I am going to present my research strategy to answer this question. 2. Literature Review In order to prove the value of the research question a review of the relevant literature was undertaken. Obviously, the central element of my research question is “the resource-based view” (RBV). Therefore, I disclose which initial assumptions, approaches and results have been
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Tremblay's article on the Americanization of Quebec culture is slightly more than a decade old, yet most of the information he provides is still relevant today. In his article, Tremblay takes a look at the invasion of Quebec 's airwaves by American content. His title refers to a belief in his mind that the Quebecois culture will one day be integrated into that of America , which in turn will lead to Quebec throwing itself into the melting pot of American culture. The first part of the article concerns
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A New Mandate for Human Resources Article Summary and Critique Human Resource Management Article Summary: A New Mandate for Human Resources HR’s role in an organization has been perceived as peripheral at best, and value sapping at its worst. In today’s world, when most
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to venture into the global market. This is especially because the multinationals investing within these BRICK countries is able to produce goods in large scales for the global markets. This therefore enhances the countries to take advantage of globalization. Having firms that can produce for the international markets makes the country have favorable balance of trade, which makes the country favorable among the providers of finance. The increasing export earns the much needed foreign exchange and
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Sciences and Cultures 12/20/2009 Http://www.cscanada.org Http://www.cscanada.net E-mail: cscanada.mse@gmail.com; caooc@hotmail.com Issues, Challenges, and Trends, that Facing Hospitality Industry WANG Jin-zhao1 WANG Jing2 Abstract: This article presents findings of issues, challenges and trends that hospitality industry might fact in the year ahead respectively. Top issues that will influence the global hospitality industry in the year ahead include sustainable development calls for
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Jonathan P. Doh and Terrence R. Guay GLOBALIZATION AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: HOW NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS INFLUENCE LABOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL CODES OF CONDUCT Abstract • Concerns over the potential negative spillovers from globalization have resulted in increasing demands for multinational corporations (MNCs) to adhere to international standards and codes of responsibility. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have been important advocates for development and adoption
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