This article approaches the phenomenon of globalization from a long-term perspective and argues for analyzing globalization as a process, focusing on different actors within a global economy. Based on previous findings from Malaysia and some preliminary findings from the Shanghai region, China, it explores the motives and adaptations of foreign industries in Asia. The article also seeks to iden...

The modern concept of globalization in health care and clinical research often carries a positive message for the "Global South" nations of Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. However, bioethical abuse of participants in clinical trials still exists in the Global South. Unethical studies directed by the "Global North", formed by the medically advanced nations in North America, Western Eur...

There is no definition of globalization in a form universally accepted and perhaps not even final one. The reason is that globalization includes a multitude of complex processes, reaching different areas of society. It can be a phenomenon, an ideology, a strategy or all together. One thing is certain: globalization raises an endless polemic, progressing continuously and irreversibly generate ma...

US services are globalizing at a rapid rate, are increasingly in trade surplus, and, through foreign investment and affiliate sales abroad, are deepening the global integration of the US economy. There is even a new term for the phenomenon—“offshoring”—that is, the offshore outsourcing of service activities. While outsourcing is not new—the breakdown of the process of goods production to local ...

today’s competition is promoted from firm against firm to supply chain versus supply chain, globalization and competition is a common phenomenon so each organization should make its supply chain as a weapon against the others, in doing so this paper presented a conceptual, graphical, step by step methodology to construct supply chain strategies by integrating strategic management’s theories, ap...

Globalization is leading to increased economic interactions between the U.S. and almost every other country in the world. A growing percentage of the American economy is devoted to foreign trade, and many U.S. businesses are establishing offices, factories, and other economic ventures in other countries. Most economists claim that globalization is, on the whole, a beneficial phenomenon—and one ...

this research probes the impact of instruments of globalization on the religious identity. this is why the theories that are used here include: the implant theory of george gerbne, the relevant theory as developed by teriandis, the theory of cultural coexistence, the theories relating to the american consumer culture, and the spread of western modernity. today globalization through intensificat...