Impact of Globalisation Essay

language of the text and the lives of the characters. The Gate at the Stairs is set in the aftermath of 9/11 (an event which had a massive impact…

According to Barry M. Richman and Melvyn Copen “Environment factors of constraints are largely if not totally external and beyond the control of individual industrial enterprises and their arrangements. These are essentially the ‘givers’ within which firms and their managements must operate in a specific country and they vary, often greatly from country to country.” According to Glueck and Jauch “ The environment includes outside the firm which can lead to opportunities for or threats to the…

adaptations designed to optimize production efficiency, transnational mobility, and, ultimately, the bottomline. Chief among these adaptations is the multinational corporation (MNC), an economic, political, environmental, and cultural force that impacts the lives of billions of people every day – often in complex and imperceptible ways (Roach 2005). Driven by powerful technologies in electronics, telecommunications, and transport developed over the last two decades, MNCs operate as…

Prologue The history of India has witnessed and still witnessing discrimination and atrocities either in one form or the other on Dalits, women and Minorities. They are deprived of their socio-economic and political rights. Even after centuries the same situation is predominant in India. The violation of fundamental human rights and the viciousness has been perpetrated on them, particularly on Dalit women and Minorities. Women and Dalits have faced alienation from the main stream society due to…

Tourism and Pacific communities have a complex and multi-faceted relationship. There are both positive and negative implications of the tourism industry, which are not only economic and environmental, but also deeply cultural. As globalisation has made foreign travel to the Pacific easier, cheaper, and more widespread than ever before, the effects of tourism have never been more relevant. As many island nations in the Pacific are relatively isolated, have limited resources, and rely…

been exposed to western culture, these views are still strictly enforced in many parts of Pakistan. Not only does the disparity in unpaid household labor between men and women seems sexist and outdated, the cultural stipulation can have economic impacts beyond each household. Responsibilities for maintaining a home, raising children and caring for the elderly still fall primarily on women and girls, sometimes keeping them from education and the ability to pursue their career aspirations (like my…

The rapid globalisation of the economy and the expansion of international trade during the mid to late 20th century have played a pivotal role in today’s increase of multinational ‘sweatshop’ practices. In recent decades, the issue of ‘sweated labour’ has received a great deal of publicisation in industrialised nations. Thousands of anti-sweatshop activists have targeted multinational firms in the textiles, footwear and apparel (TFA) sectors, and campaigned in protest of the exploitation of…

attempts to reduce poverty as it may seem at first sight. For if the rich paid higher level of taxation, not only would they be living up to their social responsibilities, but that extra money could be used to help the poor – for example, to make more impact on reducing child poverty than the government has so far been able to achieve. In academic and political debates as well as policy making, issues surrounding social exclusion and inclusion, poverty and wealth creation and material provision…

ethnicity, age, nepotism etc.one of the most contemporary subjects of discussions in all fields of study is gender discrimination and its impact on all spheres of life. There is very clear gender pay gap that persists in most industries. Most companies belong to the school of thought that accepts that men have more flexible working time that woman. This has a major impact of their opportunity for promotion and wages. Unfortunately some of it is true i.e. there are women whose actions conform to…

Introduction The purpose of this essay is to identify the main injustice found in the cotton supply chain and what factors determine to this Human Rights violation. To “identify” this ethical issue, we will make an analysis of the cotton supply chain stakeholders, understanding each stakeholder role on the cotton production and their interactions with each other and discuss their conflicts and potential alliances. We will associate the identified ethical issue in three different levels of…