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Globalisation
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Mind Map on Globalisation, created by joanna.harris on 12/04/2013.
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Globalisation
Definition
set of interalated processes
deeper international economic integration
Gilplin (1997) increasing interdependance trade, finance, macroeconomic policy
flattening process , technology
Freidman level playing field
Kobrin 1997 increasing technology scale and information flows
Castells 1996 capacity to work as a unit in real time on a planatory scale
Harvey, 1989 Mittelman, 1996 compression of space and time a shrinking of the world
Drivers
Political
trade liberilisation
opening up of soviet bloc
Free Trade Areas
WTO, WB etc
Economic liberalisation
decline in barriers to trade
Technological Change
Liscencing, franchising, intellectual property
Cost drivers
Attention to developing countries
BRICS
Next 11
Is it really happening
Volume of trade is small reative to the size of most economies (Krugman 1994)
Multinationationals locate most assets and R&D activities in their home countries (Doremus, et al 1998)
Vast areas not affected,
South & Central Asia
Bulk of Africa
Latin America
Account for large amount of resources
Current global crisis and globalisation of media suggest otherwise
Heightened our awareness in living in an increasingly connected world (Held et al 1999)
Global Culture
concept of global village (Mcluhan 1964)
world increasingly populated by cosmopolutan consumers (Levit 1983)
National culture and values change over time through path dependant not convergent ways (Inglehart and Baker (2000)
Global Language
Impacts
Internationalisation of markets and production
competition reducing price
offshoring and outsourcing
increasing economies of scope
less focus on plant economies more global
extending product life cycle
Industry structure - Deindusrtiisation
Changes in labour demand
job losses and gains
structural unemployment
Economic dependancy
culture
allocative efficiency
Implications
inequality
developing countries can't compete?
displaced workers unable to find jobs
causing political tensions
sustainable? environment
dominance of Triad
loss of national soveriegnty
need for global governance
international problems = international rules
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