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EMBA BA 804 Managing the Enterprise from a Global Perspective. Professor Ram Mudambi Department of General & Strategic Management. What is this course about?. International business is about business operations involving activities in more than one country
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EMBA BA 804Managing the Enterprise from a Global Perspective Professor Ram Mudambi Department of General & Strategic Management
What is this course about? • International business is about business operations involving activities in more than one country • The main object of study is the multinational corporation (MNC). A company that • internalizes operations across national borders • leverages resources controlled in one country in other countries
BA 804: Lecture 1 Globalization
Gary Hamel on MNC CEOs MAJOR CONCERNS in 2003 • Efficiency • Change • Growth • Legitimacy • Complexity
Globalization • The shift towards a more integrated and interdependent world economy. • Two components: • The globalization of markets – Macro issues – Macro IB • The globalization of operations – Micro issues – Micro IB
Global Drivers Accelerators Decelerators Technology Open Markets Economic Integration Peace Corporate Strategy Global Focus Culture Market Barriers National Barriers War Corporate Strategy Local Focus 1-3
Global Leverage – Value chain disaggregation Swan Optical Manufacturing Design
Volume of world trade and production, 1950-2002 TRADE 20 fold increase OUTPUT 7 fold increase
Impact of GATT Tariff Rates Average Tariff Rates on Manufactured Products % of Value Table 1.1
The role of technological change • Microprocessors and telecommunications • The internet and world wide web • Transportation technology
Volume of FDI inflows, 1994-2002 ($ billions) Fig: 1.4
National origin of largest multinational corporations Fig: 1.5
Globalization - Pro • Lower prices for goods and services. • Economic growth stimulation. • Increase in consumer income. • Creates jobs. • Countries specialize in production of goods and services that are produced most efficiently.
Globalization - Con • Destroys manufacturing jobs in wealthy, advanced countries. • Wage rates of unskilled workers in advanced countries declines. • Companies move to countries with fewer labor and environment regulations. • Loss of sovereignty.
Sovereignty and the WTO “Under the new system, many decisions that affect billions of people are no longer made by local or national governments but instead, if challenged by any WTO member nation, would be deferred to a group of unelected bureaucrats sitting behind closed doors in Geneva.” - Ralph Nader
International vs Domestic Business • Countries are different. • Range of problems are wider and more complex. • Government intervention in trade and investment creates problems. • International investment is impacted by different currencies.
Three takeaways • Globalization, defined as the shift towards a more integrated and interdependent world economy, has been rapidly increasing • While the triad remains the dominant economic zone, the international economy is changing to become more inclusive • These changes are causing stresses and strains in both the developed and developing worlds
PRO Corporate globalists inhabit a world of power and privilege. They see progress everywhere because from their vantage point the drive to privatize public assets and free the market from governmental interference appears to be spreading freedom and prosperity throughout the world, improving the lives of people everywhere, and creating the financial and material wealth necessary to end poverty and protect the environment. They see themselves as champions of an inexorable and beneficial historical process toward erasing the economic and political borders that hinder corporate expansion, eliminating the tyranny of inefficient and meddlesome public bureaucracies,and unleashing the enormous innovation and wealth-creating power of competition and private enterprise.
CON Citizen movements see a starkly different reality. Focused on people and the environment, they see a world in deepening crisis of such magnitude as to threaten the fabric of civilization and the survival of the species - a world of rapidly growing inequality, erosion of relationships of trust, and failing planetary life support systems. Where corporate globalists see the spread of democracy and vibrant market economies, citizen movements see the power to govern shifting away from people and communities to financial speculators and global corporations dedicated to the pursuit of short-term profit. They see corporations replacing democracies of people with democracies of money, self-organizing markets with centrally planned corporate economies,and diverse ethical cultures with cultures of greed and materialism.