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4 Dimensions of Globalization

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  • Economic Integration: Increased dependence between countries economy.
  • Technological development: IT and network allows for globalization.
  • Political integration: International relations, politicians and agreements.
  • Cultural dimensions
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Who is against Globalization?

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Developed Countries due to loss of low-paid jobs. Usually protectionist countries.

Developing Countries:
- Import of products/services from the outside threatens local culture, identity and economy.

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Scpetics vs Globalists

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SCEPTICS:

  • Globalization is not a new phenomenon
  • The world is not flat (meaning that cross-border integration is close to complete), but characterized by persistent differences despite partial integration (Gaps in culture, institutions, trust etc.)
  • In a semi-globalized world, firms must therefore pay more attention to the differences between cultures than to similarities.
  • DISTANCE STILL MATTERS (EVEN ONLINE!!!)

GLOBALIST

  • The world is flat
  • Global integration
  • One global popular culture rather than more cultures.
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Laws of semi-global business world

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The law of semiglobalization: International interactions are much less intense than domestic interactions, yet non-negligible.
The law of distance: International interactions are ‘dampened’ by external/objective distance.

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CAGE Framework

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The analytical framework used to understand country and regional differences along the distance dimensions of culture, administration, geography, and economics

4 differences
Cultural: Language, etnicity, religion etc.

Economic: Income per capita, cost of labor, GDP etc.

Geographic: Time zones, climate, transportation etc.

Administrative: Currency, trade agreements, legal systems etc.

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Aggregation, Adaption and Arbitrage

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Aggregation strategy:
Exploit similarities across countries, while side-stepping some differences to gain increasing returns to scale. (tensions between integration and responsiveness become salient (fremtrædende)).

Adaption strategy:
Create value by adapting elements of company (e.g. products) to local preferences/requirements.

Arbitrage strategy
(The strategy of difference):
Exploit differences between countries by taking advantage of variations, e.g. in costs and willingness-to-pay (by locating different parts of the value chain in different countries).