Globalization
* affects quality in many ways
  - the economic life in both positive and negative ways
* also causes negative situations in a country's economic life
  - has an impact on advertising and consumerism
  - helps push down U.S. wages
* also increases the U.S. economy's exposure to foreign shocks
  - difficulty of making decisions
  - possibility of well-coordinated worldwide campaigns
  - means increased competition which puts additional pressure on national economies
  - poses challenges to societies and economies
  - promotes the spontaneous gathering of people with common interests
  - tends to aggravate structural violence
* alters the structures in which they work.
* amounts to a coup d'etat by the global economic elite.
* boosts the use of economic resources and increases interaction between cultures.
* brings with it the promise of new economies of scale.
* broadens the boundaries of our lives.
* can be a catalyst for mutual progress or a new cause for bitter global conflict
  - force to create growth and opportunities
  - powerful and dynamic force for growth and development
  - source of new values
  - strong force in the fight against poverty
  - an equitable phenomenon
  - blur regional and national differences
  - increase vulnerability to external shocks
  - provide immense opportunities for less developed countries
* causes mass layoffs and huge income disparities.
* company's tendency to have interest in media corporations in other countries.
* complex concept that means different things to different people
  - reality
* concern at a number of levels.
* continues to drive changes throughout every sector of the economy.
* contributes to mental health problems, say experts.
* creates natural tensions that impact on immigration policy.
* decreases the power of old centralized authorities.
* demanding process requiring knowledge and information.
* denotes movement of money, goods, information and people across national borders.
* direction of super corporations.
* does present tremendous opportunities for growth and prosperity.
* drives changes throughout every sector of the economy.
* effects the lives and livelihood of women.
* enjoys a symbiotic relationship with the Internet economy.
* entails development and human security as well as poverty and human fear.
* exacerbates already existing pressures to lower the cost of labor in the aggregate
  - gender inequalities
* expands the information superhighway across the world.
* fact of economic life, which most reasonable people concede
  - life for the foreseeable future
* feeds on uniformity, both ideological and material.
* firm concept in sociology.
* force of nature - human nature.
* fundamental change in the way the world works.
* further exacerbates poverty by privatizing government services on a national level.
* general trend in business.
* gives rise to a web of contradictions, tensions and anxieties.
* has a number of positive effects
  - an uneven impact on Asian power
  - impacts well beyond the economic sphere
  - important cultural, social, environmental, and political impacts
* has many dimensions
  - effects one of which is that it reduces poverty in developing countries
  - implications for leadership today and in the future
  - several aspects - cultural, social, environmental and economic
* has the potential to bring immense benefits to the human race
  - generate substantial additional wealth
* has, in principle, the potential to benefit all of the world s people.
* heralds a radical, revolutionary change in the historical world order.
* highlights the tenuousness of the dichotomy between state and non-state actors.
* holds great potential to enhance human welfare
  - major implications for agricultural research
* impacts national politics, sometimes in ugly ways.
* implies threats to various civilizations.
* increases choice and liberty, while national group identity does the opposite
* involves much more than trade and finance
  - tougher competitive conditions for the business sector
* is Americanization with two fewer syllables.
* is about change
  - minds and ideas, too
  - more than economics
* is about the ever-diminishing boundaries of our world
  - flow of goods, services, and money across borders
  - what is happening to economies on a world scale
* is all about the distribution of power
  - wealth and profit
* is an inevitable consequence of capitalism
  - inevitable, evolutionary force that is redefining the economic landscape
* is an irreversible fact of life in the modern world
  - objective process most of which lies external to consciousness
  - ongoing process that presents opportunities, as well as risks and challenges
  - at the forefront of the changes affecting the business environment
* is both a cause and a result of the modern information revolution
  - integrating and extending the core of free-market democracies
  - central to the competitive reality of the aerospace industry
  - certainly one factor affecting how democracies work
  - characterized by integration
  - dangerous because control of goods signifies control of workers
* is driven by innovation
  - mainly by advances in technology
  - first and foremost an economic and financial process
  - for the enrichment of financiers
  - fueled by technology and high-speed telecommunications
  - imperative to a company s ability to compete
  - imperialism
  - increasingly important to many employers
  - integral to discussions of sustainable development
  - marked by several features, many of which structure the apparel industry
  - more economical than political
  - most important when distributing internationally
  - much more than the provision of services
* is one of the major revolutions impacting management and organizations today
  - more important characteristics of late capitalism
  - source of heightened competitiveness
  - particularly important to Saudi Arabia
  - perceived as bringing unprecedented opportunities to billions of people
  - political, technological and cultural, as well as economic
  - remarkable today, and Japan shares a major part in the world's economy
  - seen as a heartless economic process that destroys jobs and cultures
  - something new and independent of capitalism
  - still a major concern in the world
  - synonymous with freedom and economic growth
* is the American standard
  - cornerstone of the technological revolution
  - direction our future is heading
  - dominant force of our time
  - greatest single feature of the twenty-first century
  - narcissism of a superpower in a one superpower world
  - overarching theme of our times
  - process by which nationality becomes increasingly irrelevant
  - result of the neoliberal economic policy, which has triumphed on a world scale
  - second major factor affecting local governments and changing the economy
* is, and has to be, driven by men and women in the street
  - in fact, a very old process, in some sense as old as human civilization itself
  - more simply, the system of our time
* key business driver in the marketplace.
* large and complex subject with economic, political, and cultural dimensions.
* leads to increasing complexity and diversity.
* major force behind partnering.
* makes markets move together more than they did before
  - the world interconnected in reality and in experience
* means both prosperity and dislocation at home and abroad
  - integration, inclusion, incorporation
* means that among human beings, everyone is watching
  - marketing research is really competitiveness research
  - more companies operate in more and more countries
  - the disparate parts of the world are coming closer together
* means the deregulation of environmental, labour and all kinds of protections
  - speed of free-market capitalism to virtually every country in the world
  - spread of free-market capitalism to virtually every country in the world
  - thinking global
* misused word and a misunderstood concept.
* money launderer's dream.
* more recent development than internationalization.
* now favors flexibility and entrepreneurship and risk taking.
* obviously effects the money supply since each country has spill-over effects.
* offers enormous benefits, in the form of higher productivity and living standards
  - great possibilities for prosperity, security and human well being
* operates as a homogenizing force
  - on Internet time
* pervades all areas of the economy.
* phenomenon that the development agenda simply has to contain.
* physical process
* poses a serious threat to the prosperity of Asian trade.
* powerful driving force behind today s unprecedented biological implosion
  - force for raising living standards across the world
* presumes that materialism refashions world politics.
* promotes social equality.
* really means changing the way things are done at home.
* reduces frictions of international capital movements
  - the autonomy of the nation state
* refers both to process and outcome.
* refers to the growth of large corporations that operate internationally
  - increasing interconnection between developments in throughout the globe
* relatively recent phenomenon.
* requires the sharing of knowledge, experiences, and views.
* slices out, irrespective of territory, a grid within the world.
* spurs creativity by widening the market for innovation.
* still demands the division of labor.
* transcends borders, social classes, religion and race.
* transforms the way people think and the way they do business.
* trend of today's enterprises.
* violent system, imposed and maintained through use of violence.
* works against recognition of the specific needs of development.