Monday 2 January 2017

Inequality and globalization. Foreign Affairs, 95(1), 11.

Session 9 – In the News – discussion

 

As part of your Discussions participation, post one news source as a response to this Main Topic and explain briefly (3 or 4 sentences will do) how the news story bears on the topics for the week or for upcoming weeks. Avoid news items that are older than 2 months.

(The topic for the week is International Operations - Company Structure - HR Mngt)

 

Required Reading

 

(Click on the link "PDF Full Text" or "HTML Full Text" in the left hand column of the article page to download each article)

 

Bourguignon, F. (2016). Inequality and globalization. Foreign Affairs95(1), 11.

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Freeland, C. (2015). Globalization bites back. Atlantic315(4), 82.

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Paasschen, F. V. (2015). Globalization from a business leader's point of view.  Brown Journal of World Affairs,22(1), 175-189.

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Salam, R. (2016). Better days for globalization. National Review68(4), 18.

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The next stage of globalization (2016). Trends Magazine, (155), 17-27.

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Gatehouse, J., Gillis, C., & Hayden, S. (2016). Now you've done it. Maclean's, 129(27/28), 40-44.

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“Debating the merits of globalization.”  An activist, a business executive and a government trade official state their views. Read the two pages posted in eR, click on Cavusgil, S. International Business: The new realities.





Recommended Reading

Blog post by Pankaj Ghemawat dated November 3, 2014 "How globalized is the world today?"

Download the report "Megatrends 2015: Making sense of a world in motion" from http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/ey-megatrends-report-2015/$FILE/ey-megatrends-report-2015.pdf, scan Chapter 3: Global Marketplace" and graphic  "Global marketplace" from Ernst & Young Global Limited.from Ernst & Young Global Limited.

 

Industries 2016. A special report from The Economist Intelligence Unit. (Click here to download a PDF of this special report.)





Required Media

Pankaj Ghemawat, “Actually, the world isn’t flat,” TED Talk, June 2012. http://www.ted.com/talks/pankaj_ghemawat_actually_the_world_isn_t_flat.html (Transcript of talk is available in eight languages on the TED web site).



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