Globalization - Material Processes
Course material - 6 pages - World geography
One interesting thing thinking about globalization is 1498, the first where a Portuguese expedition, sailing ships, manage to navigate around Africa. The Suez Canal did not exist at the time, but they managed to navigate around Africa and reached the reach the coast of India for the first...
Globalization: Cultural Trends
Course material - 5 pages - World geography
We can talk about brand appropriation: people who can in a way take advantage of this appeal to their own profit without necessarily complain with all the legislation and therefore without cleaning what the brand's owners want to clean. For example, on the street, we can buy a shirt from any...
What is globalization?
Course material - 2 pages - International economy
Globalization is the process by which available goods and services, or social and cultural influences, gradually become similar in all parts of the world. It is the increase of trade around the world, especially by large companies producing and trading goods in many different countries. It...
The United States and the World: Globalization in Historical Perspective
Course material - 8 pages - Modern history
The concept of globalization is not new: in his Communist Manifesto, in 1848, Karl Marx underlined that the bourgeoisie needed constantly expanding markets. Some distinctions are important. Globalization happens, or at least is discussed, in the context of several different...
Financial globalization
Course material - 3 pages - Finance
The term financial globalization refers to a free movement of finance across national boundaries without facing any restrictions. Financial globalization requires the introduction of a worldwide single currency managed and regulated by a single international monetary authority. The...
Globalization and Inequalities: Towards a World Without Poverty: Theories, Institutions, SDG's Policies, Future Perspectives for a Better Society
Essay - 9 pages - International relations
When we talk about globalization, we mainly think about how it has been a driver and shaper of our current society. Despite having increased and revolutionized the economic exchanges, it has largely impacted our cultural and political processes by perturbing them. Globalization...
Globalization of adolescence
Essay - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The world-wide web has connected people in ways that we have never been connected before. It provides a means for media to sporadically spread all over the world, reaching all different cultures and countries. Media such as music, cinema, literature, art, etc.. have always connected people, and...
Starbucks as Solution to Globalization and the Coffee Crisis in Colombia
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
Globalization has affected every part of the society around the world. Multinational corporations are opening new shops, manufacturing plants, and marketing agencies in other countries around the world. These efforts are aimed at reducing costs of production, in search of cheap labor as...
Critical Review, Globalization - Good or Bad
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Globalization refers to increased economic integration as a result of increased trade and investments which then leads to increased movement of people, goods, services, capital, and ideas across the world. The author of the article “Globalization - good or bad?” under...
Effects of Globalization on the Innovative Activities of Firms in India
Case study - 3 pages - Economy general
Globalization has forced many emerging markets to innovate new ways to remain competitive and attract investments in those countries. India represents a major emerging market struggling with major economic challenges that have resulted to the use of innovative technologies and strategies...
Critical Response - Globalization and Modern Day Slavery
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Over the last decade, human trafficking has been on the spotlight. The politicians, public and even students, tend to focus on this contemporary issue since it is real. All the stakeholders share one notion since they believe that it would only take time, careful thinking and persistence to end...
Exxon Mobile Merger - The Impact of Globalization
Case study - 4 pages - Management
There was a tendency in the economical world between 1994 and 2000. This movement was the result of business and technological changes and the globalization of markets. (Weston, 2002. pp.1.) With the development of technology worldwide, it is evident that technical development and...
Impact of globalization on young people in Britain and the developing world
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Globalization can be defined as a system of interaction or increasing global relationships between cultures, people, and economic activities among the countries of the world. Globalization in its simpler form refers to conglomerate exchange of languages, ideas, and cultures....
How is migration contributing to and reflecting the challenges of globalization?
Case study - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
During the last presidential campaign in France, many debates occurred about the immigration and the globalization. Indeed, some of the candidates denounced the danger that the migration was for the employment and the good economic health of the country, because of the globalization...
Globalization and economy (negative effects)
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
Globalization has been defined in various ways by different scholars. In economic terms, globalization refers to progression of incorporating different isolated national markets of capital, labor and commodities into a single world market which different investors across the globe...
Globalization of Culture
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
Globalization has been known to benefit local communities through the creation of new opportunities, financial capital and culture. But it is even more famous for the detrimental effect that it has brought upon the world's poorest countries. This essay will be focusing on the examination...
Canadian policy at the crossroads: Protecting Canada's independence in the age of globalization
Case study - 8 pages - International relations
The foreign relations of Canada are by nature, very much centered upon its southern neighbor, the United States. This is true for both trade and foreign policy considerations. In addition, Canadian governments have also had active relations with many other nations. These relationships have...
Has globalization made soft power more important than hard power in the conduct of international affairs?
Case study - 4 pages - International relations
As Nye points out in his book ‘Soft Power ‘,Power is the capability to get things done, meaning that it has the ability to gain the outcomes one wants through affecting the behavior of others. In this essay I will explore whether globalization has made the emergence of soft...
Modernization and Globalization in Bangladesh: A Case Study
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
Many hailed the 2004 opening of Bashundhara City, a world-class shopping mall located in Bangladesh's capital city of Dhaka, as yet another indicator of the country's consistently expanding economy. This was the first Western-style mall to open in the country and accordingly it has created quite...
Globalization of Culture - published: 30/05/2012
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Globalization has been known to benefit local communities through the creation of new opportunities, financial capital and culture. But it is even more famous for the detrimental effect that it has brought upon the world's poorest countries. This essay will be focusing on the examination...
Money laundering in the financial community: one of the dark sides of globalization
Essay - 9 pages - Finance
Economically, globalization may appear beneficial in that it enhances trade between men and generates growth. Many of its adverse effects are, however, the game of criminal organizations. Indeed, with the rise of movements of people, goods and capital, globalization tends to...
The anti-globalization: another logical organization of global space
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
The process of universalization is essential for all, whether it is appreciated or not, whether one thinks to be profited by it or as a victim of it. But the globalization of the economy is not enough to summarize the world of ours: however, other processes coexist thus making this issue...
Philippe Hugon's analysis of the changes wrought by globalization on the African economies
Case study - 4 pages - Management
Despite the effect of globalization on some economies, particularly those of East Asia, Africa has remained untouched by this phenomenon. Among the 49 Least Developed Countries (LDCs), 34 are now on the Dark Continent. Although the continent accounts for 11% of world...
Enterprises facing globalization
Case study - 8 pages - Management
The globalization of economies is at the heart of many economic and social debates. The rapidly changing political environment, economic and social development, increased trade in goods, services, and information currently concern all developed countries. This movement is not without any...
Globalization, Economic Growth and Social Acceptance: The Case for the Olympics in China
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
In 2008, China was poised upon the brink of world domination. Set to host the Summer Olympic Games in its capital Beijing, China would come off from this two week-long event as a victorious host and dominant world power, or as a failed, backward, socially regressive society, still ill prepared...
Art and globalization
Thesis - 21 pages - Arts and art history
"Art always has been and always will be important to humans", says Cynthia Freeland, professor of philosophy at the Houston University. This sentence, announced as a universal truth, shows that art remains strongly essential for human beings. It is also assured that everybody knows the importance...
Globalization and its impact: Case of Africa
Case study - 11 pages - Economy general
As defined by the Merriam-Webster English language dictionary, globalization is “the tendency of investment funds and businesses to move beyond domestic and national markets to other markets around the globe and thereby increase the inter-connectivity of different markets.”...
Multinational business and globalization
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Above all, let's start by explaining what globalization is. Many definitions exist some are too minimalist, others too general. The term used to describe the current state of the global economy has become a fashionable word. We retain that: “Globalization is a process (or...
"Global strategy and Globalization in emerging markets"
Essay - 6 pages - Business strategy
Organizational culture, like national culture, is an iceberg, with some elements above water and others submerged. Elements above water are not only more visible, but easier to understand. Elements below water are difficult to observe and are more important for understanding culture because they...
Globalization: Knowledge-based economy in Europe
Tutorials/exercises - 31 pages - Economy general
It is a fact that today's European economy is strongly impacted by globalization. European firms have the opportunity to go to the global market. In order to be successful and to achieve a local and international development, those companies have to adapt and to reinvent their strategies....
