D080 Module 1 Questions and Answers
Graded A
globalization ✔✔process by which people and goods (products, technology, information, ideas,
job opportunities) move across boarders
regulate global economic environment ✔
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D080 Module 1 Questions and Answers
Graded A
globalization ✔✔process by which people and goods (products, technology, information, ideas,
job opportunities) move across boarders
regulate global economic environment ✔✔International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World
Trade Organization
globalization drivers ✔✔economics, transportation, international cooperation
fundamental aspects of globalization ✔✔trade and transactions, capital and investment
movements, migration and movement of people, the dissemination of knowledge
areas of globalization ✔✔economy, politics, culture
cultural globalization ✔✔transmission of ideas, meanings, values around the world - extends and
intensifies social relations (formation of shared norms and knowledge with which people
associate their individual and collective cultural identity)
World Trade organization ✔✔provide framework for negotiation and formalizing trade
agreements and a spite resolution process
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (The World Bank) ✔✔aid in economics
development and cooperation
financial instrument ✔✔a monetary contract between parties
stages of going global ✔✔market entry, product specialization, value chain disaggregation, value
chain reengineering, creation of new markets
market entry ✔✔enter new countries using models similar to ones deployed in home markets
product specialization ✔✔companies transfer production process of a particular product to a
single low cost location and export the goods to different markets
value chain disaggregation ✔✔companies separate the production process and focus on
completing each activity in the most advantageous location
value chain reengineering ✔✔companies seek to increase cost savings by rejigging their
processes to suit local market conditions (lower cost labor for capital)
creation of new markets ✔✔focus = market expansion//company able to lower sticker prices and
to expand demand
industry globalization drivers ✔✔underlie conditions in each industry and create potential for
industry to become more global
market, cost, competition, government
opportunities for scale ✔✔cost advantages due to an increase in the amount of output and
decrease in cost per unit
market ✔✔opportunity for scale, convergence of needs
cost ✔✔economies of scale and scope, e
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