BUSI 303 Discussion 1
Liberty BUSI 303 Discussion 1 Answers
In Weeks 1, 3, 5, & 7 – To begin your thread for a particular module, open the Key Terms document posted within each module, and select one of the key terms that interests you.
Declare your topic to the class by posting a new thread in the related DB forum and titling it with the key term you selected. This reserves your topic so that other students cannot use it. Each student must cover a different key term; no duplication of articles or key terms is allowed.
Chapter 1:
- 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
Chapter 2:
- 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