Globalization and International Management

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Introduction

According to the Scholte’s book entitled “Globalisation: a critical introduction”, the explanation of the word “Globalisation” is summarised in five aspects, that is, internationalisation, liberalisation, universalisation, modernisation, supraterritoriality (Scholte, 2000). In a simple way of thinking, Globalisation is towards to connect every country in the world together in both positive and negative way.

Samson and Raft (2005) defined that Organisational culture as a: ‘system of shared meaning within an organisation that determines, in large degree, how employees act’.

It relates to the group beliefs and values within the organisation focus on the common characters of the employees, and make the business differs to each other.

The organisational cultures approach to the different way as the development of globalisation. Due to the research work from Clayton and Fisher (2006), the organisational cultures could be affected by the environment. Globalisation is major issue in the world stage as well as influence people’s daily life.

Pheysey(1993) stated that there is no way that every organisation stands alone in the society. Oppositely, it has already become the fundamental element of the societies, economies, and countries. This essay will emphasize on the cultures of different organisations in the worldwide is becoming distinctive from each other under the pressure of globalisation.

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First of all, the general environment is different in the world stage for each country. The concept of general environment also known as external environment is composed by several elements, that is, international, legal-political, economic, social cultural and technological factors which would hav...

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