MGT 3200 Chapter : Management Chapter 1 Students
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The book starts out with a deconstruction of osama bin laden in order to illustrate indicate the and sometimes contradictory social dynamics of globalization. Steger then moves on to a definition of the concept, the term globalization applies to a set of social processes that appear to transform our present social condition of weakening nationality into one of globality. Globalization is not a single process, but a set of processes that operate simultaneously and unevenly on several levels and in various dimensions. As background, steger discusses the five influential definitions of globalization, also considering some objections raised by globalization skeptics. In fact, he gives examples of how cultural exchanges can be traced back to the prehistoric period. Chapter three dissects the economic dimensions of globalization. The book gives details about the emergence of the global economic order, including the internationalization of trade and finance, and the power of transnational corporations (tncs).
