Interpreting Concepts of The World Is Flat
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The phrase: "the world is flat" can be interpreted in many ways. Basically what Friedman means by "flat" is "linked." The falling of trade and political barriers and technical advances have made it possible to do business, instantaneously with billions of other people around the world. It has allowed for parts of the world, which had previously been cut off, like China and India, to successfully compete in the world market. Thus, the playing field is being leveled, and no one nation has an advantage. Friedman could also refer to a "flat world" in a metaphorical sense. In a spherical earth you cannot see around the world and cannot recognize the opportunities far from where you live. If the world were flat you could see it all. There would be no barriers to get in your way. This is the equivalent to a smaller globe which allows one to reach far away opportunities.
The three Globalizations contrast in many ways. Globalization 1.0, lasting from 1492 to about 1800, was about countries and muscles. Its force driving the process of global flattening was the amount of "muscle" your country had. The key agent of change in Globalization 2.0, which lasted from 1800 to 2000, was the power of multinational companies, which went global for markets and labor. Globalization 3.0, beginning in 2000 flattened the playing field even more. The dynamic force was the power by which individuals could collaborate and compete globally. They could do so digitally with the convergence of the personal computer with fiber-optic cable. Globalization 3.0 differs from the previous two not only in how the world is flattening, but also in the types of people involved. In Globalization 1.0 and 2.0 it was mostly American and European businesses who...
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...decades, is similar but different from outsourcing. Outsourcing means taking a specific function that your company was doing domestically, such as research, call centers, or accounts receivable, and having another company perform that exact same function for you and then reintegrating their work back into your overall operation. Offshoring, by contrast, is when a company takes one of its factories that is operating in the U.S. and moves the whole factory overseas. There, it produces the same product, only with cheaper labor, lower taxes, and lower health-care costs.
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The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
http://www.jimpinto.com/writings/flatworld.html
http://uclaforecast.com/reviews/Leamer_FlatWorld_060221.pdf#search=%22the%20world%20is%20flat%20summary%22
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how friedman's phrase "the world is flat" can be interpreted in many ways.
- Analyzes how the three globalizations differ in many ways. the key agent of change was the power of multinational companies, which went global for markets and labor.
- Argues that india and china are competing for low-wage manufacturing and information labor, as well as the highest-end research and design work.
- Analyzes how friedman's phrase "the world is flat" can be interpreted in many ways.
- Analyzes how the three globalizations differ in many ways. the key agent of change was the power of multinational companies, which went global for markets and labor.
- Argues that india and china are competing for low-wage manufacturing and information labor, as well as the highest-end research and design work.
- Explains the ten "flatteners" in the world is flat: work flow software, uploading, outsourcing, offshoring and supply-chaining. the fall of the berlin wall on 11/9/89 changed everything.
- Explains that the world wide web was created as a system for organizing and linking documents so they could be viewed by almost anyone from any part of the globe. the commercial web browser was kicked off by netscape.
- Explains the rise of work flow software in the late 90s, a quiet revolution that took place with few people knowing about it. it enabled more people to design, manage, and collaborate on business data in real time.
- Explains that uploading harnesses the power of communities and individuals and allows open source software to be used cooperatively. uploading has led to the creation of blogs, wikis, and podcasts.
- Explains that the fiber optic bubble created the potential to move american business to india, by essentially linking the two nations.
- Explains that companies are offshoring their manufacturing to china and other areas in the east to take advantage of low cost, high quality labor and gain a dominant base there.
- Describes supply-chaining as a method of collaborating horizontally among suppliers, retailers, and customers to create value. wal-mart, the biggest and most profitable retailer in history, has an extremely efficient supply chain.
- Explains that ups is synchronizing global supply chains for companies large and small. they supervise the whole management, from factory to warehouse to customer to repair.
- Explains that google, yahoo, and msn.com allow individuals to be self directed and self empowered in order to obtain information. friedman in-forming is about self-collaboration.
- Explains that the steroids, digital, mobile, personal, and virtual, allow anyone to talk, compute, write and access information from almost anywhere at almost any time. these steroids involve computing, breakthroughs in instant messaging and file sharing, phone calls over the internet, videoconferencing,
- Explains that offshoring is similar but different from outsourcing. outsourcing means taking a specific function that your company was doing domestically and having another company perform that exact same function for you.
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1167 wordsRead More - The Impact of Globalization in Belgiumexplanatory essayThe globalization can be classified into three types of waves such as first wave, second wave and third wave. This globalization has a different period of time because it have different of factor that drive the changes to continues become better of globalization. First globalization happens in year 1870 until 1914. Globalization at this stage happens when decreases in tariff barriers and invented in new technologies to decrease transportation cost such as the shift from sail to steamships and railways. The first wave is ended by World War I and the increase in protectionism. Thereafter, the second wave happens in year 1945 until 1980. This type happens because decreases in transportation cost and specialization of manufacturing products in developed countries. This specialization of manufacturing products...
In this essay, the author
- Defines globalization as the integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, and the spread of technology.
- Explains that globalization can be classified into three types of waves such as first wave, second wave and third wave.
- Explains that most countries have experienced the impact of globalization on their country. belgium will be used as an example.
- Defines globalization as the integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, and the spread of technology.
- Explains that globalization can be classified into three types of waves such as first wave, second wave and third wave.
- Explains that most countries have experienced the impact of globalization on their country. belgium will be used as an example.
- Explains the general objective of the study, which is to investigate the globalization in belgium.
- Explains belgium is a constitutional, monarchy, and federal parliamentary democracy. the bicameral federal parliament is composed of 40 directly elected politicians and 21 representatives appointed by the 3 community parliaments.
- Explains that french language belongs to the governing upper class and those who just know to speak dutch will be labels as second class citizens. brusselers adopted french as their main language.
- Explains that the constitutional language areas determine the official languages in their municipalities, as well as the geographical limits of the empowered institutions for specific matters. the constitutional court of belgium has to resolve the problem about jurisdiction between the bodies.
- Explains that belgium's economy depends on globalization, and their transport infrastructures are integrated with the rest of europe. their productivity, gross national product (gnp) and export per capita are high.
- Explains that belgium supports an open economy and the extension of the powers of european union institutions to integrate member economies. belgium and luxembourg are a single trade market with customs and currency union.
- Explains that belgium became one of the most popular industrialized countries in the world from 1830 to 1910. however, in 1840s, the textile industry faced the crisis and the region had to face famine.
- Explains belgium's globalization index is 92.30, ranking them as the most globalized country in the world.
- Cites beckheit, gelpern, gulati, panizza, u., mauro, b. w. d. and zettelmeyer, j.
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- Cites the european commission's website, "the eu single market: fewer barriers, more opportunities".
- Cites monti, m. (2001). competition and consumer: the case of pharmaceutical product.
- Analyzes how the ease of doing business in a country influences foreign direct investment inflows.
- Cites tim, v. r., and marx, i. (2013). growing inequalities and their impacts in belgium.
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