INTRODUCTION Global corporate citizenship is progressively more important in today’s world as companies have a better understanding how it affects their business, brand and ultimately bottom line. A few years ago, a few different developments, mostly in China, have exposed the severe conditions that third-world workers have been withstanding. Apple’s demonstration of good global corporate citizenship over the years has shown an exemplary path for others to follow. Do you think that Apple has demonstrated global corporate citizenship, as defined in this chapter? Why or why not?
from China goes to Wal-Mart. This made Wal-Mart China’s eighth largest trading partner. Governments, businesses, communities, and individuals in countries around the world face both challenges and opportunities as a result of rapidly expanding economic globalization. Changes in a country’s economy can happen very quickly and can deeply affect people and institutions. The fact that Wal-Mart is a company not even a country; and is China’s eighth largest trading partner; just makes us realize how much economic growth depends on businesses to produce more goods and services faster and more efficiently.
1. Summarize the political risks of operating a manufacturing company in China. With over 20 years of plastic manufacturing experience, Riordan Manufacturing has proven the industry their design concepts, manufacturing capabilities, product quality, and care for their customers have placed them where they are today. Still, with everything Riordan has to offer, they may still become vulnerable to foreign political environments when Riordan chooses to expand its global operations. With current successful operations in Hangzhou, China, Riordan now has plans on continually expand its manufacturing operations in China.
A “switched on” country is widely connected economically, socially, physically and politically. Factors that affect this are natural resources, trading, culture, skilled labour force, languages spoken education and healthcare and its economy. China used to be a communist country, so there was a lot of State interference when involving what products to be bought and sold, in the 1990s, China’s economy became more Capitalist so products that are now bought and sold are based on what the population demand rather than what the government choose. The effect of this is that China’s links to other countries increase and global brand names become more well-known in China. Trans national companies start to set up there due to the massive population and amount of natural resources which provide potential employee’s and raw materials for industrialisation and new buildings are built for offices, factories and homes and it provides many more jobs for Chinese people.
The stock prices rose because the air transportation agreement between United States and China and the market opportunities of this deal in China for FedEx and UPS. b. FedEx stock prices outpaced UPS because FedEx had a larger presence in China with its Chinese volumes nearly doubling from 2003 to 2004. FedEx having 11 flights weekly and serving 220 cities in china with direct flights to important cities. c. FedEx’s increase in market value is because of the efficient market. All investors have access to information, and due to its current market share and operations in China.
Researchers found that approximately 1.7 million children suffer from diabetes and 12 percent of Chinese children are overweight. (China today, n.d.) It used to be a rarity to see an overweight person in streets of China, now it is commonplace. Western fast food is high in salt and calories and having a negative impact on the lives of Chinese people. The overall economic growth of China has led to bicycles being replaced with automobiles. McDonald’s has over 26 drive-thrus in China.
Money is what makes the world turn and it’s exactly what china has. China primarily gets its money from its huge exporting business all over the world. Everywhere you see it says made in china it was made and bought from china giving them more money. Not only has this but America owes china a lot of money from are “issues” that we had and they could pull this card anytime they want and ask for their money. This money could be used to fund next generation equipment for their military technology and even for society.
The earliest Chinatowns tended to be on the west coast while the newer ones are being built in lesser profile cities as opportunities shift. As the migration trends toward returning to China, many Chinatowns, especially smaller ones like the one in Washington, D.C., begin to lose their initial mission. Today, many urban Chinatowns in the United States are becoming visitor centers rather than serving as the ethnic enclaves they once were, although the rapidly growing satellite New York City Chinatowns in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn on Long Island represent a stark exception to this trend in North America, fueled by continuing robust levels of large-scale immigration from mainland China specifically directed toward New York. When searching the web, we come across tour services to local Chinatowns where visitors are taken on a “Chinese experience.” The Asian culture is seen as exotic, something that should be glassed in a museum, something unusual, something worth “experiencing.” Using chopsticks in a Chinese restaurant may seem like the respectable manner to adopt, but it can certainly be seen as a form of entertainment as if familiarizing oneself with another ethnicity’s customs is meant to be amusing. Ethnocentrism plays a major part in
For instance, Canada’s four main emerging products could be associated to with different sections of the Chinese economy ranging from ores to manufacturing, from wood to residential construction and from vegetable oil and seeds to domestic consumer consumption. In 2012, 31 percent of Canada’s ores were exported to China, making China its biggest customer for ores. Furthermore, export of wood and oil seeds increased by 74 percent and 167 percent respectively, in 2012. As China’s demand for more sophisticated products increases, Canadian exporters will have a unique opportunity to capitalize on this by providing more services related to their products. Although there is shift in China’s economic policies, its massive domestic market will
Chinese Migrate to America The time period between the 1870’s to the 1930’s was a crucial time in American history. During this time was not only the industrial era and the beginning of modernization for America, but it was a immigration hot spot. When America started to industrialize and become more modern, it opened a big window for opportunity and other countries saw this as a once in a lifetime opportunity. Many people from other countries all around the world began to migrate over to America for so many reasons especially the Chinese. The Chinese are a prime example of taking the opportunity that America brought to many people.