Global Business
Global Business
Globalization has been occurring for 200 years, and has been feared for nearly that long. In fact, the balance between local and global has remained nearly unchanged. Globalization discusses the fears, realized and not...
There are some economists who view the current financial crisis as a “once in a hundred years” event in the business cycle that is a severe but necessary readjustment that must be endured. However, the current crisis...
Over the past twenty years, the world has experienced some of the greatest changes in human history. The biggest result of any great advancement in the technological and scientific realms is that the 88 percent of the...
A supply chain includes all components of a business responsible for gathering the materials and services required to make a product, as well as the manufacture and shipment of the product to stores and, ultimately,...
Within the past 10 years, China has evolved from a third world country into one of the most economically powerful countries in the world, second only to the United States. With China’s government-backed development of...
Over the past few years, China has transformed itself into a powerful, consumer-oriented culture, and many Western companies have flocked to China to take advantage of this new marketplace. However, entrepreneurs from...
No economy has exploded as quickly as that of China. In just 30 years, China has been transformed from a backward, bureaucratic country where innovation was stifled and trade with the West was virtually nonexistent...
Global warming, the rise of the middle class and rapid population growth are making the world hot, flat and crowded. In Hot, Flat, and Crowded, author Thomas Friedman explains that these challenges...
Over the past two decades, the Chinese and American economies have developed a symbiotic relationship with one another. China has become the United States’ largest creditor, while the American and multinational...
The “great recession” has completely changed today’s economic climate. Consumers are buying less and saving more, banks are lending very little money, and conservationist policies are emerging from developed nations,...
