This course provides students with the concepts, tools, and skill sets necessary to conduct in-depth analysis of the global economic landscape. The goal is to understand the underlying market and institutional mechanisms that drive globalization, shape the international business environment, and influence strategies of individual businesses. Topics we will cover include: What determines exchange rate fluctuations and currency crises? How do they affect the domestic economies and firms’ international
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Economic globalization refers to increasing economic interdependence of and national economies across the world through a rapid increase in cross-border movement of goods, service, technology and capital.[1] Whereas globalization is centered around the rapid development of science and technology, and increasing cross-border division of labor[2], economic globalization is propelled by the rapid growing significance of information in all types of productive activities and marketization, and the advance
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PART I: GLOBAL OUTLOOK Part I: Global outlook 15 GLOBALIZATION: A HISTORICAL AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVE CHAPTER 1 Chapter 1 Globalization: a historical and multidimensional perspective In the past decade the concept of globalization has been employed widely in academic and political debate, but the meanings attributed to the term are far from consistent. In this document it is used to refer to the growing influence exerted at the local, national and regional levels by financial, economic
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rights reserved. ISSN 0020–8825 / 2007 $9.50 + 0.00. DOI 10.2753/IMO0020-8825360400 Preface Globalization and Its Effects on International Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management Globalization is one of today’s most controversial buzzwords, though the spread of this term worldwide since the early 1990s may be testimony to its own significance. Skeptics argue that the entire discussion about globalization is unjustified, as all its essential facets—foreign trade, cultural exchange, technological progress
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I chose the case study titled In Many Business Schools, the Bottom Line Is in English (April 10, 2007). This case study was about one of the ways some larger colleges and universities, internationally, are trying to increase revenues in their bottom line. They started to offer things like enrollment exams and entire courses in English due to the rising international enrollment. It speaks of English as being the working language. By working language it refers to the language those stakeholders
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RESPONDING TO GLOBALIZATION: INDIA’S ANSWER 4th Ramanbhai Patel Memorial Lecture on Excellence in Education by Dr. C. Rangarajan Chairman Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister New Delhi February 25, 2006 Ahmedabad RESPONDING TO GLOBALIZATION: INDIA’S ANSWER I deem it a great honour to be invited to deliver the 4th Ramanbhai Patel Memorial Lecture on Excellence in Education. Shri Ramanbhai Patel was a true entrepreneur. He
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| |Case study 1 |LAFARGE: From a French Cement Company to a Global Leader | | |1, what does globalization mean for Lafarge and how can it globalize effectively? | | | | | |Globalization means
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Globalization vs. Localization Discussion Points: 1. Leave it to the corporations, bankers and global bureaucracies – “the only route out of poverty for the world's poor” – to do the planning and solve the world's problems. So far, almost all of the evidence from the past three decades (1970-2000) - the period of economic globalization's most rapid ascendancy - shows that it is bringing exactly the opposite outcome that its advocates claim. Clearly, poverty and inequality are rapidly
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Globalization Questionnaire MTG/448 January 31, 2011 Globalization Questionnaire Globalization Globalization is a shift toward a more interdependent and integrated world economy (Hill, 2009). Other way of looking at globalization is one huge global market that deals with many nations in a way that creates a form of global economy. Another important part of globalization is the drives of globalization markets, production, barriers, and technology. Drives of Globalization
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been identified, and include; increased globalization of the world economy brought about by intensified global competition, technology proliferation, and shortening of product lifecycle (Snyder, 1997. pg 45-50). This paper review is about management of the global alliance. MANAGEMENT OF GLOBAL ALLIANCES. "Globalization mandates alliances and makes them unconditionally necessary". (Ohmae,1982 . pg 67). Kenichi Ohmae's point of view, that globalization necessitates alliance as a vehicle for customer
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