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    Globalisation is a process by which national economies become more integrated and interdependent with one another. It is the increasing expansion of money, culture and ideas. It is the interaction and integration among the people, companies and governments of different nations. It is shaping the world around us in ways and at a rate that was unimaginable just two decades ago. Advances in transport such as the steamship, jet engine, and container ships and in communication infrastructure including

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    Is the international political economy more globalized today than in 2000? One could argue that the groundwork for such a phenomenon has been soundly laid by the post-World War machinations that generated entities such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. No doubt, events such as the terror attack, a particularly nasty form of globalization, that occurred on September 11th, 2001, raised awareness of globalization in general as we realized that a plot conceived in Afghanistan, Germany

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    “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” This phrase is perhaps one of the most well known historical allusions in today’s age. Everyone knows the concept, but no one knows the motives behind the expedition. No one ever asks themselves deeply on why Christopher Columbus was able to make the voyage in the first place. The answer is always by the book, which is “He recieved funding by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.” Not a single person asks themselves on why he was chosen specifically to go on

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    Evolution of Technology

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    Primitive men cleaved their universe into friends and enemies and responded with quick, deep emotion to even the mildest threats emanating from outside the arbitrary boundary. With the rise of chiefdoms and states, this tendency became institutionalized, war was adopted as an instrument of policy of some of the new societies, and those that employed it best became - tragically - the most successful. The evolution of warfare was an autocatalytic reaction that could not be halted by any people, because

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    costs on every level. IKEA’s shoppers are half-consumers and half-producers because they have to self-assemble their purchases. Even though IKEA provides assistance, the customers prefer to order, carry and transport their own goods. The concept of flat packaging has further encouraged self-handling of purchases. It has also improvised storage capabilities and further reduced shipping costs. This new store model allowed IKEA to have its staff focus on boosting rapid movements of consumers and in store

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    Case Study Of Criteria

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    Started as a small cabinet business in the mid-1960’s Criterion furniture was established by two brothers, Wally and Brian Smaill. It started out as a simple business in their garage and soon transpired to be one of Australasia’s largest marketers and manufacturer of ready-to-assemble furniture and succeeding to achieve large target markets in USA and several parts of Asia. This case study pertains to Criterion group from the 1960’s to the year 2000. Business for this company peaked in 1980 while

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    philosophy at the center of his business philosophy, helped facilitate the setup of an Advisory Board that would advise him on company operations, a reflection that the company Lincoln Electric engages employee to create a more open atmosphere and a flat-to-some-extent structure. The two founder’s personalities, background and

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    Pepé's Journey

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    Pepé transforms from an oversized boy to a brave man in the span of a few short days in John Steinbeck’s Flight. Under Pepé’s and Mama’s standards of a man, Pepé is man right after he murders the man in Monterey, because he murdered the man in Monterey. Truly, however, Pepé isn’t a man until he has endured the hardships of living in the mountains alone and the independence that this journey requires him to gain. When Pepé leaves for his infamous journey to Monterey, he is still a mere boy of nineteen

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    “The World is 10 years old”. This is one of the opening quotes in Thomas Friedman’s book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree. He says it was born when the Berlin wall fell. As soon as the Cold War Era ended, we began a new, prosperous era of globalization. The world is now 26 years old (16 years since Friedman wrote the book) and this era of globalization is more evident than ever. With every day that passes in this somewhat new era, the world shrinks. The 7 billion people that reside on planet earth are

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    Flat World Essay

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    people need to adjust these change, else they will linger behind different social orders. From my point of view, the world is not actually flat as friedman think. Since, the world's financial equalization has changed dissimilarly everyday, the business sector has diverse level as a playing field as far as trade. Drawback #1: The fundamental drawback of flat world is that it does not improve the database outline process.

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