- Globalization of capital markets
- Globalization - What does it mean?
Effects - Preconditions - What proponents say - What critics say - Dangers - How globalization can work
The discontents of globalization
- Pressing issues
- Underlying general concerns
- Conditionality
- Global governance
Development
Problems and examples
A vision of development:
- Free trade
- Resources
- Sustainability: Saving the planet
- The role of multinationational corporations
- The burden of debt
- The World Trade Organisation
Main negotitation rounds - WTO principles - Exceptions - The Doha round - The WTO secretariat - Multinational Companies
Problems created by the MNCs in the home country - Problems created by the MNCs in the host country - Special problems for developing countries - Counter-measures by host countries - Severe step - Efforts - International enterprises
Reasons for internationalization - Types of internationalization - What should enterprises take care of? - Three types of international enterprises - Business location
Influences - Special factors - Footloose industries - Quantitative factors - Qualitative factors - Market-side factors - Additional factors for international location decisions - Business location worksheet
- Business location factors
- Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
The World Bank (Group) - The International Monetary Fund - Prevention of another global depression - The collapse of the Bretton Woods System - Newest tendency - What the h... is the difference? - Unternehmensleitbild