Current Issue : April - June Volume : 2012 Issue Number : 2 Articles : 6 Articles
This paper analyzes and explains different challenges the European Union (EU) is currently facing. It also analyzes the main impact that globalization has when trying to resolve these challenges.\nThe EU has identified several challenges that their understanding need to be resolved and settled during the 21st Century. Among these, but not limited to, are, unemployment, the integration of all European countries under the EU umbrella, and the multicultural and multiracial diversity so prevalent in the continent. If these challenges are tackled effectively, the EU will face and conquer, to a large extent, the main issues impacting all member nations. On the contrary, if the EU fails to resolve these challenges, the member nations will feel the consequences of increased unemployment and lack of political and social integration. Consequently, the up to now unattained main objective of a unified - politically and economically - Europe, will also fail.\nThe authors understand that globalization defines and determines the interaction of all different parts of our society. Therefore, it is a fair statement to emphasize that globalization is the context that frames all the conditions required to effectively face and resolve the challenges mentioned above....
It has become increasingly more important with the rapid progress of internationalization to have a broad view based on the awareness that we live in an international society that requires us to achieve mutual understanding beyond our own borders. We are enmeshed in a global web of economic relationships through trading of goods and services, multinational corporations, cooperative ventures among the world�s firms, and the ties among the world�s financial markets. The global economy affects all of us daily and we cannot ignore the increasing globalization of the world�s economies. The education of our students will play an even more important role in globalization in the future. The purpose of this study is to investigate and evaluate how international collaboration in education has helped students in a small University to increase their understanding of the global economy and how exchange of ideas on various economic issues has been playing an increasingly more important key role at the global level. In particular, in this project, the experience of Desales University�s collaboration projects will be described to demonstrate the impact of short-term immersion experiences across cultures to develop global competence. Similarly, the role of technology will be discussed to illustrate innovative and cost effective ways to prepare students to become globally competent....
Intermediation is a primary subject in the field of global e-business management. Although many businesses now have been launched as e-business directly within the internet era and thus have a born-in global reach, the professional support of intermediaries can enhance business performance for all participants of a collaborative network. This type of mediation effect could be derive from systematic\r\ninfrastructural provisions, or from the invisible governance inherent to trust. This study analyzes the mediation effect with an emphasis on the latter view. In China, there are many bottlenecks in the infrastructure or hardware of global e-commerce, or e-trade, whereas some e-marketplaces, such as Alibaba.com, have thrived. The principal objective of this study was to test empirically the success factors of this type of business performance in electronic-based export intermediary firms (e-EIFs) in China, based on a total systematic structural equation model (SEM). SEM has advantages in examining the causal relationship between mediation variables such as trust or e-MP services and business performance. Our results demonstrate the positive mediating impact of trust on e-MP business performance....
The author begins the paper with a brief historical perspective of global capital flows to\ndeveloping economies. He then presents the theoretical underpinnings and methodology employed during the research. This is followed by the review of the literature. Next, the researcher outlines his findings. He also analyzes economic strategies to attract global private capital flows and policy implications for decision makers in developing economies. The author ends the paper with some policy recommendations and the way forward for economic growth and sustainable development....
Cultural intelligence structure has been recently introduced in management literature, that is, the ability to work effectively under conditions that its characteristic is cultural diversity. The current study was carried out to examine the relationship between cultural intelligence and organization effectiveness in\nEsfarayen industrial complex as an organization enjoying cultural diversity. The method for this study consists of descriptive and also a kind of correlation. Statistical sample includes 254 personnel (using Kerjesi and Morgan) working in Esfarayen industrial complex who were in the state of an active employment in 2011. In the mentioned study, a random-stratified method has been used for employees. Research tools included cultural intelligence standardized questionnaires (four factors) which was used to assess the organizational effectiveness, the Parsons Model standard questionnaires (four categories)\nwas also used. The validity and reliability was confirmed by Cronbach test and the results were 0.85 and 0.89, respectively. Research hypotheses of appropriate statistical methods have been tested through SPSS 16 and LISREL 8.54 software. By using Pearson�s correlation coefficient, cultural intelligence relationships and their factors were approved with organizational effectiveness except motivational cultural intelligence; also, LISREL output indicated that, cultural intelligence has an\nintermediary (indirect) influence on organizational effectiveness as well as occupational-individual factors....
The glowing ambers of globalisation have helped hitherto protected economies to benefit from improved product qualities at far lower prices, as a result of foreign competition. Essentially, the technological and spillover effects of improved production processes have led to better quality products, national economic growth and better labour remuneration across the world. The drivers of globalisation, essentially technological innovation has helped to reduce poverty and the effects of its antecedents throughout the world. Evidence suggests that there has been an improvement in the level and prevalence of poverty throughout the world as a result of global integration of economies and interdependence of nations that globalisation galvanises. However, the benefits of globalisation have been observed to be lopsided. While the West have benefited substantially from globalisation, the less\ndeveloped countries, which were purportedly identified as the main benefactors, have been deprived of the proceeds of this process. This article highlights the controversy that surrounds globalisation as a concept and ideology, drawing special lessons from the practical impacts and effects of globalisation on the diverse global regions (both in the developed and third-world countries). The article demonstrates that while globalisation has facilitated the current unsurpassed global prosperity and\nwealth creation; the process has also been criticised (inter alia) for the lopsidedness of global trade benefits, the prejudice of global institutions against the world�s poor, and its socio-political implications on national sovereignty and citizens in the developing world (especially Africa)....
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