Discussion

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

(Those in bold can each be selected as a unique Key Term)

· Globalization

· Glocalization

· World Trade Organization

· Gross domestic product

· Global Trade

· Global business

· Historical examples of international trade

· Driving forces: reduction in barriers to trade

· Driving forces: advances in transportation technology

· Driving forces: advances in communications technologies

· Impacts of globalization: political, economic, social, and cultural

· Characteristics of the successful global business professional

· Dimensions of culture: communications, language, religion, ethics, transparency, values, attitudes, social structures and organizations

· Global business culture

· Managerial paradigms: ethnocentric, polycentric, and geocentric

· Communication across cultures: verbal and non-verbal

· Communication across cultures: high context and low context

· Christianity

· Judaism

· Islam

· Hinduism

· Buddhism

· Confucianism

· Shinto

· Ethics in global business

· Corporate social responsibility in global business

· Values and attitudes across cultures

· Hofstede’s dimensions of culture

· Trompenaar’s dimensions of culture