Apple and Microsoft will be among several technology companies asked to explain their pricing behaviors directly to Parliament. Stephen Conroy, Minister for Communications, believes that just because these companies innovate in technology, does not mean they innovate in business models -- and clearly, those presented in Australia are unethical and unfair (Peating & O'Rourke 2012)
Australia has about 23 million people who are just as technologically wanting and savvy as Americans and Canadians. Even if we placed a conservative estimate of a market needing 10 million pieces of software, movies, or games, that is hardly a small market for either company -- particularly when the materials do not need to be repackaged or retranslated into another language (Population Clock from the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2012)
Subsrctipions require 250 destops and a more full featured enterprise system. Given the exchange rate, and the technology needed to support these services, a price difference is reasonable (Strant 2012)
As a result, an all encompassing strategy must look at numerous tactics and apply specific ones to the location. (Beata 2006) Gomez (1999) found that running any kind of international organization is challenging
To achieve these larger objectives, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs can address issues that are most important to employees inside a particular facility. (Benson 2003) This is illustrating how there are other concepts that can be used to motivate and effectively reach out to staff members
This is showing how Mura is overlooking the basic criteria for effectively evaluating a specific location. (Cummings 2000) Conclusion Assess the validity of the overall argument The arguments that were presented are showing how Mura is providing a basic foundation of understanding the challenges that are impacting most small and large firms (with an international focus)
This is highlighting how Mura's ideas are short sided by failing to understand the adverse impact of specific traditions on internationally-based firms. (Gomez 1999) Cummings (2000) determined that the best way to understand cultural differences is to use the Job Description Index
Their job is to serve as go between for: managers and employees in addressing critical issues. (Martens 2010) To fully understand how this can take place requires looking at literature on the best practices
When this happens, the odds increase that the workplace is becoming a hostile environment from these kinds of misunderstandings. (Mura 2011) To mitigate these potential issues, most firms will rely heavily on their HR departments
If this kind of approach is not utilized, it will have an adverse impact in trying to integrate these organizations together. (Paik 2005) For example, Paik found that Accenture failed to take these variables into account when expanding into East Asia
This may be true even if, as we expect, some of the new arrangements prove to be untenable in the long run. I conclude that the current crisis has been far more productive than the Asian crisis in terms of propelling institutional innovations that may ultimately lead to more decentralized, pluralist, inclusive, and developmental financial architectures that can respond to the myriad, diverse challenges facing developing countries (Grabel, 2012)
This does not allow anticipating stabilization, but, on the contrary, it might be alleged that episodes of large volatility or even crises might follow, whether these are limited to consortia, national or international spaces. Since the mid nineties, repeated deep financial instability and detriment in the quality of financial assets have occurred, as well as decline in prices, and breakdown and rescue of financial and non- financial enterprises, attached to economic spaces or presented and revealed as an international financial crisis (Giron, & Correa, n
Causes of the current recession have been said to include: the limited reach of the regulatory structure, that required banks to weight assets according to their risk but also allowed the creation of new, structured finance products to flee regulatory requirements; the accessibility of funds to Western capital markets, including substantial amounts from China, aiding lending; low interest rates, motivating the demand for credit for investment and utilization, and resulting high levels of indebtedness; the appearance of a shadow banking system facilitating financial organisations to take on assured banking functions and loosening the regulations governing borrowing and lending; the financialization of debt, facilitating the alteration of consumer debt into tradable securities, including mortgage-backed securities whose value, and related risks, were hard to establish; the international trading of such securities, that conveys problems globally; finance providers' payment systems that support extreme risk-taking with little apprehension for borrower default, partly stimulated by traders' beliefs that Government will intercede in the case of market instability; the failure of credit rating agencies and auditors to measure the value and risk of financial assets and products suitably; and the housing and asset bubbles, that confident investors, businesses and consumers to take on debt. Instability in energy prices during 2008 also added to the environment of economic doubt (Kitching, Blackburn, Smallbone, & Dixon, 2009)
One may or may not think this is unjust, but it does seem that, from a financial growth point-of-view, it is counter productive (Globalisation and the Economic Crisis, 2010). Several elements of the ongoing process of globalization, especially the unfettered markets, (including the labour market) and the growing inequality (resulting for many households to indebt themselves in order keep up spending on basic needs), have given cause to the current crisis (van der Hoeven, 2010
Global commerce and infrastructure continue to make the world more interrelated and interdependent. Possible courses for the altering role of the state in an era of globalization can be represented by three general tendencies, keeping in mind that politics in reality will frequently be characterized by tensions between them (Worden, 2012)
Globalization and Democracy "Some argue that [democracy and globalization] go hand in hand -- that unrestricted international transactions encourage political accountability and transparency and that politically free societies are least likely to restrict the mobility of goods and services. Others argue that democracies, in which special interests that suffer from foreign competition have voice, are more likely to have closed markets and vice versa" (Eichengreen, et al
The bad news, Smith continues, is that "a flailing Americanism may exact a horrific cost in human lives" (209). Global Governance and Democracy A group of prominent scholars and policymakers are presenting the idea that "global governance" (an apparent product of the politics of globalization) is "inherently undemocratic" simply because it tends to undermine "popular sovereignty" (Goodhart, et al
In concluding, Goodhart explains that while globalization is not easy to define in simple terms, at a "minimum it connotes increasing global interdependence," which, when aimed towards a more democratic world order, can only be a good thing (1055). The English School Andrew Linklater describes the English School as an approach to international politics (from the distinctly British perspective) that embraces the idea that sovereign states do form a society, but that society is "an anarchic" society in that the citizens do not have to bow down to a "higher power" (Linklater, 2009, p
Everything has gone Global: But has Democracy been left behind? With the fall of the Berlin Wall, new horizons, new hopes, and new markets were to open up in a democratic world. This was the "…unchallenged victory of the market and democracy," writes Yves Meny, professor at the European University Institute in Italy (Meny, 2010, p
Meanwhile Dr. Joachim Karl Rennstich -- an associate professor of political science at Fordham University -- uses the extended evolutionary world politics (EWP) framework to show that globalization is "essentially evolutionary" and indeed has roots going back to 900 BCE (Rennstich, 2006, pp