This can be witnessed, for example, in the resolutions of G7 summits, as well as in global conventions on biological diversity, climate change, and desertification. Consequently, the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests IFF became established and is presently trying to solve numerous global forestry issues. Business globalization involves expansion across national borders of economic activities by individual corporations. A globalized corporation control production facilities at least in three continents. Yet today, there are perhaps only ten forest industry corporations which match this criterion.
Globalized companies achieve superior scale and scope economies, compared to their rivals.
A globalized corporation has achieved a comparative advantage which is not easy to copy. The discussion on benefits and costs of globalization has only recently started. Inadequate research findings are available to verify these assumptions. The core countries of the European Union decided to promote four basic freedoms already in the 1957 Treaty of Rome. Such freedoms included the free movement of goods, services, people and capital accross national borders.