page_title: Outline of globalization
section_title: Global business organization
hierarchical_section_title: Outline of globalization / Aspects of globalization / Global business organization
caption_attribution_description: English: Red: U.S. corporate profits after tax and inventory valuation adjustment. Blue: nonresidential fixed investment (i.e., business investment), both as fractions of GDP, 1989-2012. Shaded areas indicate U.S. recessions.
context_page_description: The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the broad, interdisciplinary subject of globalization:
  Globalization – processes of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture. Advances in transportation and telecommunications infrastructure, including the rise of the Internet, are major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities. Globalizing processes affect and are affected by business and work organization, economics, sociocultural resources, and the natural environment.
context_section_description: International business development and the organization of business and trade worldwide are fundamental aspects of globalization and the development of globalizing systems.
  Global business organization (category)
  Corporate citizenship
  Global sourcing
  Cross-border leasing
  Global strategy
  Global R&D management
  Intermodal freight transport
  Low-cost country sourcing
  Outsourcing
  Supply chain management
  Global supply-chain finance
  Industrial ecology
  International business
  Standardization
  International standards
  International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
  International trade
  Free trade zones
  Special Economic Zones
  Multinational companies
caption: Red: U.S. corporate profits after tax. Blue: U.S. nonresidential business investment, both as fractions of GDP, 1989–2012. Wealth concentration of corporate profits in global tax havens due to tax avoidance spurred by imposition of austerity measures can stall investment, inhibiting further growth.[5]
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