Global Management Issues

1
Global Management Issues

• Chapters 12 and 13

2
The Power of MNCs An Overview of Defenders and
Critics

• Critics of the MNCs the Activists
• MNCs and LDCs
• MNCs and Industrialized Nations

3
Response of MNCs to Host-Government Criticisms

• 11 benefits
• Balancing of Conflicting Interests

4
Issues of Ethics and Social Responsibility

• Read handout case
• Answer questions with your team
• Be prepared to share case and questions with the
  class in 15 minutes

5
Foreign Payoffs

• What are the laws?
• Who is hurt if anyone?
• What is the global trend?

6
Free Trade vs. Protectionism

• Why Free Trade?
• The US Moves Toward Free Trade
• Pressures for Protectionism
• Free Trade Responses to Protectionists
• US Deviation from Free Trade Policy
• Japanese Trade Barriers
• European Union
• Peoples Republic of China

7
Expanding Global Trading Agreements

• European Union (EU)
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) see
  page 434
• Mercosur
• Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN)

8
Effects of Globalization

• Globalization Produces Financial Instability
• Globalization Erodes Nation-State Sovereignty
• Globalization Influences Cultures