There is now more concern for social cohesion, since less cohesion translates into more vulnerabilities. Two to three years ago business leaders were not focusing on these issues because they were preoccupied with restructuring. Another change is that in earlier times corporate social responsibility was mainly exercised in a national context, but today there's a need for global standards. This is happening, but it's taking time. My answer is that globalization has become an ideologically-loaded word.
Globalization is seen as a heartless economic process that destroys jobs and cultures.
It has become a scapegoat for everything which is bad. They provide the benchmarks and we can encourage followers. This is not new for the forum. Entrepreneurship in the global public interest has been our motto since 1972. We are non-ideological but we have a certain value concept which is expressed in this motto.