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Going Global
What is globalisation?
“The growing economic interdependence of countries worldwide through increasing volume and variety of cross border transactions in goods and services, freer international capital flows, and more rapid and widespread diffusion of technology”
Moving fromHere To Here
Factors :
Internet and Satellite Falling cost of
communicationCheap air travel, Cross-
border road and rail networks
English: international language of business
MONEY, GOODS and PEOPLE move more easily than ever before
A shrinking world A shrinking world
Stick this in !
Or should we be here…???
Few Examples :
Before we move on with “GOING GLOBAL” lets take few day to day examples , like :
TATA
McDonald’s
Starbucks
Walmart
Talking about TATATATA + CORUS (Takeover)
TATA + JAGUAR (Merger)
Here we note the presence of McD in three global core areas, and the lack of presence in Africa.
McDonald’s
Starbucks
The company is well established in USA and Japan, and trying to get global entering into the markets of different countries.
Walmart
Walmart is expanding using different techniques in different countries :
Global Groupings
Getting connected :
Global networks come in a variety of forms. They can be networks of:
Business and TradeCommunication
networksTransport networksProduction networks Political networksDemographic networks
Internet connectivity by connection density. Partly related to population density : partly to
level of development.
Internet Users in the world (By Geographical Regions)
Global Hubs: megacities and world cities :
‘Cores’ with intense connectivity
World Cities such as London and Tokyo.
Others have special attributes
Diverse populations with demographic
Flows of finance, trade and ideas, move towards them
Aircraft Departures 2006 Territory size shows the distribution of aircraft take-offs, measured
by the aircraft’s territory of registration.
• India still needs to work on improving its Air traffic • Africa has very few aircraft take-offs
The migration tide
30-40 million illegal migrants worldwide Refugees amount to 8-10 million 130 million economic migrants
Summary:
A process it continues to increase connectivityMegacities attract migrants, both rural-urban
ones and international onesIn turn globalization contributes to the ability
of people to migrate Despite globalization some people remain
disconnected