And the most crucial & unavoidable realities of international business are that both host and home governments are integral partners. Reflected in its policies and attitudes toward business are a governments idea of how best to promote the national interest, considering its own resources and political philosophy. A government controls and restricts a company's activities by encouraging and offering support or by discouraging and banning or restricting its activities depending on the government. ... According to University of Phoenix text, culture is defined as "the whole set of beliefs, a...

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When this is achieved quality of life can be improved and governments that oppress their people can be stopped in a united fashion. Sub B: Sovereign governments threaten rights. Sovereign governments can violate rights to a much greater degree than the global community and ultimately degrade the quality of life for its people. ... These potential consequences of governmental abuse require that specific limitations be placed upon government. ... As a global community we can set up labor standards and basic safety nets in countries where a ruler has violated his people. ...

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It should be seen as a systematically interactive set of processes in which the direction of causality is two way and contingent. In such a context part of the problem with understanding globalisation is the nature of the populist, sometime hysterical, discourse on the subject to be found not only in the media but also in a range of so-called scholarly texts that reduce 'globalisation' to a set of slogans to be either exhorted or demonised.1 Throughout the 1980-90s for many of its advocates--and when understood economically as trade liberalisation, financial deregulation and priv...

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Second, the integration of financial markets where the capital enjoys a high level of fluidity to flow across borders so that national governments are unable to control the movement of national capital. ... However, the data on government expenditure as a share of gross domestic product for a set of developed countries from the 1960s shows a rising level of state expenditure, which points to the increased role of the state (Hay, 2011: 324). ... As economic interdependence makes national economies sensitive to the economic change outside, the concern to overcome, or to balance, the vulnerabili...

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The WTO is a member organization with a set of rules that all member states must abide by. ... The requirements of membership are the first step in enforcing government policies to speak in the interest of economics. ... Member governments, understanding that they will face economic tribulation if their policies are unfair or are not compliant with rules, are thus much more likely to keep their economic policies in the interests of their economies. ... (Lash 372) It seems that everyone interested in the WTO is trying to clutter the its agenda with irrelevant issues, "Friends of the WTO want to...

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Yet, even though Japan was the world's largest foreign direct investor, the low level of inward FDI coming from elsewhere was cited as evidence of the closed nature of Japan's market overtaken by government supported conglomerate firms known as the "Keiretsu". ...

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The state is defined as a set of political institutions whose specific concerns is with the organization of domination, in the name of common interest, within a delimited territory. In international relations, a state in its conventional structure is possibly most suitably described as a clearly distinct territory which: (i) is acknowledged internationally as a state, (ii) is presided over by a government able to construct and implement independent decisions regarding domestic policy and law and foreign policy, (iii) is permanently occupied by an explicit population. ... In the international ...

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A Dutch academic who maintains a good website on globalisation, Ruud Lubbers, defines it as a process in which geographic distance becomes a factor of diminishing importance in the establishment and maintenance of cross border economic, political and socio-cultural relations Left critics of globalisation define the word quite differently, presenting it as worldwide drive toward a globalised economic system dominated by supranational corporate trade and banking institutions that are not accountable to democratic processes or national governments Globalisation is an undeniably capitalist proce...

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It involves integration of the people, institutions and companies and also governments of different states. ... Accumulation of power in some international government has been enhanced due to economic and technological innovations. ... For this, people from various parts of the world are increasingly sharing a more unified set of cultural and social values. ... Political globalisation has enabled the government of China to consider more in thought in setting policies. ...

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Pressures for change in business can arise internally, that is from staff or management observing current processes, or from external pressures like changes to government policies. ... Globalisation is the erosion of national borders, decline of the power of national governments and the rise of organizations that operate across national borders. ... Globalisation has been underway for a few decades now, but the 1980's saw the biggest set of changes in Australia's history. ...

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Pressures for change in business can arise internally, that is from staff or management observing current processes, or from external pressures like changes to government policies. ... Globalisation is the erosion of national borders, decline of the power of national governments and the rise of organizations that operate across national borders. ... Globalisation has been underway for a few decades now, but the 1980's saw the biggest set of changes in Australia's history. ...

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The sad reality of this is evident in Mexico, where homes with television sets outnumber those with running water. Corporate influence doesn't stop at the media; it extends onto politics and other government institutions. ...

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The multinational corporations need to reduce cost, so they usually like to set up factories in developing countries. ... In the article, "Negative and Positive Effects of Globalization for Developing Country Business," author Don Mcccubbrey, quotes, "Many governments in Latin America (e.g. ...

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International trade has contributed to set up international companies. ... Besides all of these, globalization is not something that threatens us but the important point in this issue is that individuals, companies and governments should follow a balanced policy and take some precautions about the negative sides of globalization because while people under the influence of its good sides, it may put human race into a road of no return....

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Both companies have emphasized the significance of globalization, technology, consumers, and government policy. ... Although Honda and Hyundai have similar approaches, nothing can set up a reputation except for the customers, and so far, Hyundai is winning in the competition for global reach and most improved. ...

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There is not a set definition of globalization and its very meaning is subject to hot debate and disputed around the world. ... To give an overview of the power of the IMF and the World Bank, both were initially set up at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference ("The World Bank/IMF") to be pillars of the post-War economic system. ... The IMF and the World Bank do their best to promote human rights by stressing two key issues: the IMF and the World Bank stress the importance of establishing budgets that give high priority to meeting the needs of the poor and stress the participation of the poor in th...

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Governments in some countries should give companies incentives to locate in their countries as FDI brings economic and social benefits to the surrounding area, as they employ local people and their quality of life of these people should improve. ... Franchises are less risky compared to FDI as they are usually set up by a successful company such as McDonalds which already have strong assets such as the brand name. ...

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Globalization is the topic of 21st century that we cannot forget to mention in political science. Our society has become interdependent with each other in many ways through things like trade, technology, culture, and immigration. In a personal level, globalization has led people to be connected throughout the world regardless of their proximity using the most recent technologies, which resulted in making our world a smaller place. For example, one can easily communicate with others face to face, using their computers, tablet PCs, and mobile phones. In a more global level, globalization connect...

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