The word globalization is a common one these days. The issues involved are complicated, but in general globalization refers to the ways in which technology and trade are making the world a smaller, more interconnected place than it used to be, and to the economic and social changes that are occurring as a result. Less …
China in the first half of the nineteenth century faced unusually complex problems. The ruling Qing dynasty was weak and internally divided. The first Opium War, concluded in 1842, showed that military resistance would not succeed. A question arouse regarding trading where it has to be carried. And then there was the problem of Christian …
Globalization has been defined differently by various authors. One review by Zemin (2001) globalisation in four categories – internationalization, universalisation, modernisation and deterritorialization. Criticisms of globalization have been largely based on its socioeconomic effects, but the environmental impacts of globalization are equally important in China. On a global scale, these environmental issues include – the …
The relationship of US sports and globalization entities at the end of the 1980s, Eastman and Meyer (1989) predicted that sports programming “will change …radically in the next decade” (p. 97) and become “the crucible for programming research in the 1990s” (p. 118). To a large degree, these relatively modest and somewhat contradictory predictions have …
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Although Japan is widely known for its traditionalism and ritualism, globalization and related trends have affected it over the last 20 years. The main segments of state life, influenced by globalization are business and economy, social life and politics. In the 1950s-1960s, Japanese economy was to great extent isolated from international trade, after the establishment …
It is an economic tautology that, in a capitalist economy, companies that do not produce at the lowest possible cost will ultimately fail or to be acquired by companies that do. This Darwinian principle is at the heart of the concept of globalization in all business frameworks. Think of apparel industry. This is really surprising …
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