I realized that I had not made an entry into my blog for over a month! Recall hearing somewhere that more than 99% of the blogs that are set up world wide are abandoned within a few months since the originally enthusiastic writer loses interest once the novelty has worn off and he/she realizes that probably nobody is reading them anyway!!
Anyway, here I am back and typing and I figured rather than write new post from scratch, I will share with you my paper on Globalization that I wrote as part of my doctoral program at SMU.
Look forward to any comments on this topic – agree or disagree, as long as you actually read it!
#1 by Robin on 2009/08/03 - 8:35 pm
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WOW Venky! Good Article — even if I do have to read it again to better understand.
So what makes the winners actually compensate the losers (Making globalization Work)?
Also, how does employing 5 to 1 make sense (unless they are getting tons more accomplished by those 5 — which is, I guess, what that does mean… duh!)
Hmmm I wonder what the terms International Corporation vs Multinational corporation or Globally Integrated Enterprise actually mean????
You can see, by what must be such ignorant questions to you, that I know nothing about global economics at all….. How sad for me!
But then that is why I love having friends like you!
Oh Venky… So who said Americans were smart????? You Indians take the cake as far as I’m concerned!!! (Yea I’m a little prejudiced here I admit!) LOL!!!!!
It’s late and I need to go!
Good to hear from you!
R
#2 by Venkat Badatala on 2009/08/04 - 1:27 am
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Wonderful article Venky !! I need to read it again.
Just got to know that you are maintaining a blog and getting to know more about you. Thanks for sharing your ideas to this flat world.
Will see you in the class tomorrow. (Eco.Dec.Analysis)
#3 by Appa and Amma on 2009/08/05 - 1:01 am
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An excellent article well written. Good job
#4 by Sakshi Venkatraman on 2009/08/09 - 12:02 pm
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Great article Dad!!!!! Hope more people comment. I sent the adress to Issabella and Mrs. Stumpf.
#5 by Bill on 2009/09/26 - 7:27 pm
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I just finished the globalization so let me comment there first. I thought your personal take but with the experts opinions leading the way was a good way to do it and kept my interest and I actually learned some stuff I had not known. You sort or alluded to it but didn’t hammer the point that you, an Indian by birth now here in the USA, are the poster child for both sides of globalization. You got here partly through the use of your skills as a programmer to be consumed by IBM or whomever at a cheaper price than US Programmers but now that are here you suffer from the globalization effect because you can’t get a job anymore – they can send the work to India and you want to be here. Not to mention the fact that (and I am assuming this) you developed lifestyle has increased considerably while here in the USA as opposed to what it would have been back in India. Sort of a double whammy to you and people who came over her in the first part of globalization.
Second comment, while I know this paper was about IT and your personal experiences have been through that area, I know there are a ton of companies that have, in the name globalization and saving money, outsourced to India and other places all their customer service business. So, I have a problem with my Quicken I get a guy in India helping me. I call XYC company about a warranty on a product or the fact that product is not working and I get someone in Mexico someplace. I would have liked to have heard more of that and how that worked and is working blended into your article. Maybe it was outside the parameters of your term paper. I would just like to know more about how that whole shindig is working because sometimes I get someone that can communicate with me very well but other times it is a nightmare to talk to them and then I get my old jingoist attitude of “Hell, man, no wonder they can’t fix my TV – they’re f’ing foreigners”
#6 by RKB on 2009/11/18 - 7:40 pm
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In theory at least, globalization will increase global wealth. I don’t know that there’s anything addressing the *distribution* of that increase. Some now are talking of Global Rebalancing – a shift in economic growth and power. I blogged about it here:
http://www.rupabose.com/economy/global-rebalancing/
It happened in the last century when the UK went from being a world power to one among many; it could happen again in this one.