Globalization of Business Enterprise

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24 h
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  • Self-paced
  • Free Access
  • Fee-based Certificate
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  • 8 Sequences
  • Introductive Level

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Syllabus

  • Week 1 - Week 1
    Welcome to Week 1 of Globalization of Business Enterprise!We are delighted that you have chosen to take this course and look forward to engaging with you in the coming weeks, as we complete this journey through globalization together.In the following secti...
  • Week 2 - Week 2 - The CAGE Distance Framework
    Week 1 focused on explaining that globalization isn’t complete and why that matters. Week 2 focuses on what globalization is rather than what it isn’t: it looks at the structure of the international interactions that do take place. It turns out that the lion’s...
  • Week 3 - Week 3 - Cultural Distance
    This session will focus on the first dimension of the CAGE Distance Framework, namely Culture. Cultural distance encompasses differences in such things as religious beliefs, race/ethnicity, language, social norms and values. Our focus will be on how cultural d...
  • Week 4 - Week 4 - Administrative Distance
    This session will focus on the second dimension of the CAGE Distance Framework, namely Administrative Distance. Administrative attributes specific to a particular country, such as autocratic policies or weak institutions and high levels of corruption, profound...
  • Week 5 - Week 5 - Geographic Distance
    This session will focus on the third dimension of the CAGE Distance Framework, namely Geographic Distance. This session will look at how trade and cross-border interactions in general are influenced by physical distance, whether two countries share a common bo...
  • Week 6 - Week 6 - Economic Distance
    This session will focus on the fourth and final dimension of the CAGE Distance Framework, namely Economic Distance. This session will look at how economic differences, particularly differences in per capita income, affect cross-border interactions. It will the...
  • Week 7 - Week 7 - The Implications of Distances for Business Strategy
    In this session, we will review the three broad AAA strategies for dealing with CAGE differences: Adaptation, to adjust to differences across countries to achieve some local responsiveness; Aggregation, to overcome some of the differences across countries and ...
  • Week 8 - Week 8 - Globalization and You
    This session, which is titled “Globalization and You”, looks at how globalization affects organizations and people, and in particular, you. We take a dual perspective, looking first at the globalization of personnel within and particularly at the top of organi...

Prerequisite

None

Instructors

Pankaj Ghemawat
Professor of Strategic Management Anselmo Rubiralta Chair of Strategy and Globalization
Department of Strategic Management

Editor

For over fifty years, IESE, the graduate business school of the University of Navarra, has been at the forefront of management education, developing and inspiring business leaders who strive to make a deep, positive and lasting impact on the people, companies and society they serve.

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