Globalization Trade and International Expansion

1) For this discussion, you will research to develop your own personal worldview on globalization and trade. You need to analyze the impacts of economic, political, technologic and legal implications in the development of your worldview. Provide examples to support your viewpoint along with a cost/benefit analysis of the ramifications of global trade on corporate stakeholders. minimum of two references and associated in-text citations. APA style. 300 words.

2) International Expansion

Directions

The company you work for is expanding internationally in the near future. A team of employees, which you are a part, have been given the task of evaluating one developed (not the U.S.), one emerging and one developing country for possible expansion. You will pick three countries this week, using the Dow Jones Indexes, and begin the process of evaluation. Choose 3 countries in which you have an interest –

This week you will look at the political, legal and technological ramifications of your three countries. You will write up, for each country, all the pros and cons of the choice of each country based on your readings of the first three chapters of your text, the CIA World Factbook and the AIB Global Edge, plus other research from other sources. The expectation would be for a minimum of 1 page per country. You will follow APA (6th edition) formatting (no abstract is required for this milestone) with title and reference pages, indented paragraphs and a minimum of four APA formatted references.

Answer preview

Part one: Globalization and trade

Globalization can be defined as a process by which different individual, companies and even nations integrate together and form a network where they can share ideas. For years now globalization has enhanced trading activities between countries. However, there have been different implications that have been brought by this regarding economic, political, technologic and legal fields.

Globalization has had some significant impacts economically due to the amount of liquid money that is exchanged during the trading activities. Another economic implication brought about by trade and globalization is that the currencies of some countries have become much stronger in the exchange rates markets (Houseman, & Mandel, 2015)…

 

 

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