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Chapter 14

One of the best selling books on globalization is ‘The World is Flat’ by Thomas Friedman; a brief summary of this book can be found at: The World Is Flat and a review at The Great Leveling.. A short video of Friedman talking about the book can be found at: Thomas Friedman video.

However, not everyone agrees with Friedman’s thesis. For a counter view by Pankaj Ghemawat see Why the world isn't flat or Laurence Prusak’s But the world's still round, and a thoughtful critique by economist Ed Leamer at A Flat World, A Level Playing Field, a Small World After All, or None of the Above?
Some other critiques of globalisation can be found at: http://www.eoearth.org/article/Global_citizens_movement
and the global justice movement’s website at: http://www.globaljusticemovement.org/

Dani Rodrik’s WIDER Annual Lecture (2004) ‘Rethinking Growth Strategies’ is available online, along with other annual lectures, at: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/annual-lectures/en_GB/annual-lectures/

The major international trade bodies websites include:
International Monetary Fund: http://www.imf.org
International Labour Organization: http://laborsta.ilo.org/
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development: http://stats.oecd.org
UN COMTRADE: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/comtrade/
United Nations: http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/
World Bank: http://worldbank.org
World Economic Forum: http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Global%20Competitiveness%20Report/index.htm
World Trade Organization: http://www.wto.org, and for some examples of their reports see: http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/its2006_e/section1_e/i07.xls and http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/its2006_e/section1_e/i05.xls.

The US National Science Foundation’s Bowen-Feenstra-Lipsey Project on world trade flows can be found at:
http://www.nber.org/papers/W5910

Many private organizations, such as Management Consultant McKinsey, undertake considerable research into the global labour market, see: www.mckinsey.com/mgi

The Economist Intelligence Unit also produces a number of economic statistics on different economies of the world as well as a general risk rating: http://www.eiu.com/index.asp?rf=0

Wikipedia is a good first base for information on the various custom unions and trade blocs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customs_Union

Adam Smith’s book, the Wealth of Nations, that started off the understanding of absolute and comparative advantage can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg at: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3300

For some additional information on the various legal systems see the book websites or sample chapters of text books on international business, for example Charles Hill’s International Business: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0073210544/443480/HillGBT5eCh02.pdf

PriceWaterhouseCoopers produce guides to the International Accounting Standards: http://www.pwc.com/extweb/pwcpublications.nsf/docid/7289e4ba59312c28852570990060ccb8

The ISO standards, which are regulated by a Swiss organization, may be found at: http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage

For employment cost comparisons in the steel industry, see: http://www.steelonthenet.com/labour_cost.html

See Geert Hofstede’s ‘official’ website (there are imitators) for a discussion of international cultural issues: http://feweb.uvt.nl/center/hofstede/page3.htm

For more information on the companies discussed in the chapter:

For information on IBM, Procter & Gamble, and Glaxo Wellcome’s structure, see: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/annualreport/2006/2006_ibm_annual.pdf pages 15-21.
http://thomson.mobular.net/thomson/7/2481/2801/print/print.pdf
and http://www.gsk.com/investors/reps06/annual-report-2006.pdf.

Ranbaxy Laboratories’ website is at: http://www.ranbaxy.com/

For a discussion of the problems of patented and generic drugs see: http://www.economist.com/business/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=9302864

An ‘open letter’ written by Novartis to their Indian patients is available at: http://www.maketradefair.com/assets/english/novartis-open-letter-organizations.pdf

For a discussion of IPR in developing countries, especially China, see: http://www.mac.doc.gov/China/Docs/BusinessGuides/IntellectualPropertyRights.htm