Cross cultural management - Globalization

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[...] Nowadays, corrupted and anti-democratic countries still exist in some coutries. Moreover, some regions in the world still don't respect for example the women's rights, or more seriously the Human Rights like children labour, discriminations. The problem is also the deficit of social protection: about 80% of the population has no social protection like social security, jobless indemnities. It seems necessary to create institutions for the global world in order to preserve equality between countries and populations because today, there is no real democratic discussions about problems that sets globalization The problem of democracy According to Sen, Nobel prize in 1998, the world needs a certain stability thanks to a global orgnisation resulting from global institutions. [...]

[...] Benefits, but globalization has also limits we can not overshadow. I. Globalization: theories Globalization is said to be fundamental departure from the past but with the growth of small communities world trade really appeared thousand years ago Mercantilism One of the earliest theories is mercantilism (1500 to 1800). The characteristic of this conceptualisation is that it is based on gold: The wealthiest country is the one which owns the biggest quantity of gold; Countries are bound to trade in order to obtain gold (more exportations than importations). [...]

[...] It is very hard for a poor country to develop teself if there is no skilled people to drive the economy. Thus, globalization appears to be a new kind of colonization of the developing nations. We can also emphasize on the problem that governments in some countries generate. For example, the wrong management of the wealth of a coutry by a government can give such results: disparities in the population, poverty, wrong redistribution of wealth. But such a wrong management is often generated by a problem in the institutions themselves. [...]

[...] Journals : 1. Problèmes économiques 1. Le monde diplomatique 2. Le Monde Internet : 1. www.monde-diplomatique.fr : Somavia J. Pour l'instauration de règles du jeu équitables www.le-monde.fr : Les mouvements anti-mondialisation 2. www.intersiderales.collectif.net : définition de la mondialisation. [...]

[...] The range of goods and services is far more wide than before globalization. We can say that globalization enabled the apparition of new products in different countries: the exchanges of goods and products were a way for all the countries to create a sort of global culture of consummation. At this stage, we can't deny the fact that globalization has been profitable to nearly all countries because the economical opening has brought prosperity and wealth for lots of regions in the world like for example Taipei, Thail and that are in the twenty first exporters and importers in world merchandise, or South America coutries such as Venezuela or Argentina. [...]