Global Strategy Industry Globalization Potential(ppt 24页)

Global Strategy Industry Globalization Potential Intorduction:
Globalization (Thomas Friedman: Understanding Globalization: The Lexus and the Olive Tree)
One overarching feature—integration, the world has become an increasingly interwoven place
Defining technologies: computerization, miniaturization, digitization, satellite communications, fiber optics and the Internet
Revolving around Moore’s law
German Political theorist Carl Schmidt, the Cold War was a world of “friends” and “enemies”. The globalization world, by contrast, tends to turn all friends and enemies into “competitors”.
Built around three balances:
The traditional balance between nation-states
Between nation-states and global markets (consists of Electrical Herd and Supermarkets)
Between individuals and nation-states
Everyone now is in everyone else’s business
Joining the global economy and plugging into EH is the equivalent of taking your country public.
Globalization is largely a technology-driven phenomenon, not a trade-driven one.
Globalization is more than just Westernization (Frank Griffel): Islamic fundamentalism
Globalization and History by Jeffrey Williamson and Kevin O’Rourke
Globalization also flourished in the 19th c and then faltered.
Railroad and steamships, submarine telegraph cables and Suez Canal (1869) all encouraged a huge expansion of trade, global investment and migration.  “By 1914, there was hardly a village or town anywhere on the globe whose prices were not influenced by distant foreign markets, whose infrastructure was not financed by foreign capital, whose engineering, manufacturing, and even business skills were not imported from abroad.”
Governments powerless in face of illegal trade in drugs, arms, intellectual property, people and money.

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