Globalization and its Impact on Domestic Businesses

This article discusses the definition of globalization and its impact on domestic businesses. It covers the positive and negative impacts of globalization on local traders and multinational companies. It also explains the Factor Proportions Theory and International Product Cycle Theory with real examples and their limitations. Lastly, it discusses the recent imposition of tariffs on Chinese imports by US President Donald Trump and its implications on domestic consumers.

Global Business Management

What is globalization and how does it affect domestic businesses? In
your response, include a definition of globalization, and discuss at least
three positive and three negative impacts of globalization.
Globalization refers to a process of integration between companies, people and government all
over the world. It refers to the cost free movement of goods, services and people from one
place to other across the world in a very integrated manner. Globalization leads to open up global
economy and increase trade relation between countries. It helps in collaboration of trade between
countries and creates integration and high interconnections of the economies across the world. It
includes foreign investments too. Globalization also means to liberalize the policies related to
import and export and welcome foreign investments into different sectors of economy that can be
a big part of economy. It means that countries can attract global capitals by opening the economy
for everyone like multinational companies. Globalization also includes the liberalization of rules
and regulations to permit a movement of people from one country to the other. Globalization
helps in boost up the unproductive sectors of the economy by investments and productive sectors
by open up export related activities that helps everyone in the world.
There are many ways in which globalization affects domestic economy. The most affected are
the local traders, which have to face turbulent competition due to globalization. People prefer
international brands instead of domestic products as they have perception that international
brands are much better (Zhang, 2014). Most of the people now-a-days prefer imported products
due to quality and also the crowd mentality falling in line with the people notions that are doing
propaganda of these products. Domestic businesses have to invest so much time and money to
promote their products. The imported products are generally the Multi-National Companies
having great capital investment all over the world, competing with them is not an easy business.
MNC’s are well aware of the local business environment with various studies and experience.
Positive impact of Globalization are-
 Globalization increase free trade opportunities between different countries. Many
organizations are now able to invest in other developing countries.
 With the help of globalization, exchanging of information becomes easier. It also leads to
increase in the speed of transportation.

 It reduces the chances and possibilities of war between countries (Peng, 2017).
 It helps in reducing cultural barriers as people belong to different cultures started working
together and making the whole world ‘A Global village’.
Negative impact of Globalization are-
 It has created job insecurity for a lot of people. People are losing their jobs because of
Globalization. Manufacturing work has been transferred to the countries where labor cost
is cheap (Lendrum, 2011).
 There are less rules and regulation related to the protection of the environment in
underdeveloped countries, so other developed countries can manufacture products in
those countries that can provide harm to the environment.
 There is a lot of fluctuation in the process due to Globalization. There is an increase in
competition and due to that developed countries are forced to low down the prices of the
products as other countries are selling the same product on cheap prices. It leads in
reducing the ability to sustain social welfare in some countries (Pérez-Llantada, 2012).

Explain Factor Proportions Theory and International Product Cycle
Theory. Also discuss one limitation for each of these two theories using
real examples.
Factor Proportions Theory
Heckscher-Ohlin Theory has a prerequisite that factors of production in various countries differs
with respect to their availability and quality. As per this theory, every country is different with
each other in respect to the availability of factors of production. This theory mainly aims on two
factors of production viz. labor and capital (Cooper, 2014). In two countries model, it says that
the countries which are rich in capital will export capital intensive commodity and the countries
with are rich in labor will export labor intensive commodity. The selection of products is always
according to type of factors that they require as inputs for production purpose (Hill and Hult,
2018). Every country has some competitive advantages for producing a particular kind of
product that mainly use the resources that are available in abundance. There are different factors
of production that are essential for a production process like material, labor, raw material,
resources and technology (Holland, 2007).
As per this theory, the country where capital is comparatively cheaper and labor is costly is
considered as a capital rich country. And the countries that are cheap in labor and costly in
capital perspective are known as labor rich country. For example US and England has
comparatively more amount of capital yet import of goods is more expensive than the exports.
US have a very good advantage of producing the products that uses innovative technology. In
case of India and Egypt, labor is very cheap and it produces wheat by using labor or labor
intensive techniques of production (Ananthan, Appannaiah and Reddy, 2010).
International Product Cycle Theory
The International Product cycle theory was discovered by Raymond Vernon in the 1960s to
explain the product cycle that basically defines that a product can go through with the exposure
of international market. It describes the whole life cycle of a product that includes mature and
decline stage due to internationalization (De Toni, 2016). There are three stages in this theory-

 New product introduction- The product life cycle starts with the introduction of a new
product. In this stage, firstly a corporation is developed to generate an innovative idea. It
targets a small market segment and sales are comparatively low. There are more chances
of development of an innovative product in developed nation because they have more
disposable income to use on a new product (Sherif and Khalil, 2008). To compensate the
effect of low sales, companies will manufacture the products on a local level so that
whenever the process issue occurs or a need to modify the product incurs, changes can be
easily implemented without high risk and in less timing. When there will an increase in
sales, companies start to export the product to other developed countries in order to
increase the sales as well as the revenue (Anderson, 2017).
 Product Maturing- It refers to a situation when a company established or created a good
demand of the product in developed countries then the manufacturer will need to consider
broaden up the production plants in other countries to fulfill the demand of the customers.
 Product Standardization- It is a very good option to export products to less developed
countries. Competitive products create saturation in the market that means original
purveyor of the losses related to product competitive edge that depends of innovation. As
per this, instead of adding new features to the products, the companies should start
focusing on low down the cost of product manufacturing.
We can understand this with the help of an example. 3D television is a product that has a high
investment and it can be available in homes. It is in an introduction stage whereas the old
television sets that occupy a huge space are in decline stage as no one wants to buy it.

Donald Trump, president of United States of America, announced the
imposition of tariff on Chinese imports in the recent past. Based on your
understanding of the first 3 topics of this unit, (i) what could have been
the reason/logic behind such a comment/decision, and (ii) what are the
implications of such an intervention on domestic consumers?
US president Donald Trump has announced the imposition if tariff on Chinese imports. He
signed a memorandum that could result in imposition of 60 billion US dollar of imports that are
done from China as well as the restriction on the investments done by Chinese people in USA.
The main reason behind this is that Trump thinks that Beijing is using wrong or unfair trade
practices to get an additional advantage in the US that includes lax observation of intellectual
law of property. He also had an issue with the size of US trade deficit with China. It has been
observed by some economists that US is using so much of Chinese products and it is importing
more in comparison to all the exports.
There are different types of implications on domestic consumers due to this intervention. There
is an increase in the prices of the products due to the applicability of tariff; indirectly consumers
are paying higher prices of the products they purchase. As per the China perspective, the new
tariff has created an impact on many industries like vehicles, chemicals, aircraft and soybean.
Trump has also warned them that he may also raise some other tariffs on Chinese imports
(Business environment, 2009).
This tariff has created a high variation on the prices of different products like electrical
appliances, accumulators, batteries and machinery products. There is an import from US of more
than one third of these products and a high share of import come from China. So, ultimately new
tariffs will create a high inflation on the prices of these products and create a direct impact on
buyer. So, it creates an issue for the people who buy this Chinese import in bulk. There is a
major impact on vehicles, aerospace, machinery, and construction and energy industries. This
created a moderate effect on rubber product like tires, belts and other appliances. In order to
resolve this issue, US manufacturer will start import the products from other countries but still it
will create a pressure on prices and make manufacturer to make an evaluation again on the
supply chains.

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