SOCS2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Private Military Company, Roland Robertson, 2004 Fallujah Ambush
29 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
SOCS2100
Organizational Management and Social Behavior
May 9, 2018
WEEK 9
Globalization / Localization
Today’s lecture:
• What are the implications for organizations and for communities of globalization
and the shifting and / or dissolving of geographic boundaries?
o Changes in technology
• We will look at intended and anticipated consequences of the shifting of
boundaries that accompany globalization, as well as examples of unintended and
unanticipated consequences
• Increasing professionalization → Upskilling a workforce OR → Downskilling and
outsourcing
• Boundaries and flow, borderlands / liminality,
globalization/glocalization/localization, outsourcing
Boundary – something that indicates bounds or limits, a limiting or bounding line
• Established for and create both inclusion and exclusion
• Can be physically real or not
Borderlands
• Different cultures, spaces, environments come together
• Often in a state of marginality and flux
• People in island nations think different from those land-bound
Important to recognize the interaction of power and territory in the construction of
borders and boundaries.
Types of Boundaries
1. Geographic
2. Physical
3. Political
4. Economic
5. Cultural
6. Linguistic
7. Aesthetic
8. Emotional
9. Psychological
Liminality
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Document Summary
Increasing professionalization upskilling a workforce or downskilling and outsourcing: boundaries and flow, borderlands / liminality, globalization/glocalization/localization, outsourcing. Boundary something that indicates bounds or limits, a limiting or bounding line: established for and create both inclusion and exclusion, can be physically real or not. Borderlands: different cultures, spaces, environments come together, often in a state of marginality and flux, people in island nations think different from those land-bound. Important to recognize the interaction of power and territory in the construction of borders and boundaries. Types of boundaries: geographic, physical, political, economic, cultural, linguistic, aesthetic, emotional, psychological. Ethiopian workers in israel: there can be power in being liminally situated, falling between categories, enjoy benefits of both, experience drawbacks of nether, example: transnational corporations and national labor laws, eunuchs in imperial china. Globalization (cid:1688)process whereby individual lives and local communities are affected by economic and cultural forces that operate worldwide.
