This document discusses globalization from several perspectives:
1. It identifies key drivers of globalization including technology, resources, and reduced legal restrictions that enable the free flow of goods, services, capital and labor.
2. It acknowledges some negative impacts of globalization such as job losses and economic stagnation in some areas as well as a widening divide between developed and developing nations.
3. It outlines factors that influence the globalization process such as the interlinking of national economies through market forces and trade agreements as well as the role of communication technology in connecting the world.
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1. LP-4 dt 17 Mar 15
Ch -3 Globalization and the Manager
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2. GLOBALIZATION
Prime Mover
IT
Leisure Time
Availability of resources incl Labour
Ease of Legal restrictions
Higher Margins
Cost Cutting Techniques
ToT
Copyrights
Inventions / Innovations
Education
Transport (land, air and sea)
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3. ILL AFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION
Loss of lives in BD, Karachi, South America etc
Overall economies are stagnant
Loss of production facilities as well as
expertise
Divide expanding between developing and
under developed countries and / or LDC
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4. PROCESS OF GLOBALIZATION
Interlinking of destinies --- national and
economies and business systems
Mkt Economy
Socialist Economy
Reasons for Mkt Eco
Privatization
Dismemberment of state owned monopolies
Deregulation of markets
Establishment of Legal Entities --- Regulators
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5. Int Trade --- Gift of Globalization
FDI
Elimination of Tariffs MFN status
Quota (GSP+)
EU, ASEAN, NAFTA, BRICS, SAARC, GCC ETC
Role of Comm
In USA 3 min call during 1930-1990 has come down
from $245 to 3.32
By 1998 it was just 36 Cents
WWW
1990 less than 1 mn
1995 50mn
2007 1.5Bn
Rev in 2004 $6.8Tr
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6. GLOBALIZATION -- CONSTRAINTS
Protectionist policies
Subsidies
Consumer behavior
Fuel Prices
Differences in social culture
Copy rights litigations
Modified Cold War
Sanctions
Freezing of bank accounts
Tax frauds / tax heavens / Money laundering etc
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8. GLOBALIZATION CHALLENGES
Global Standardization
Local Customization Strategy
Managing People
Geocentric
Ethnocentric
Polycentric
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