"Certainly a lot of these I.T. services firms plus the core software firms like Oracle are globalizing their work, or, as they put it, 'rebalancing' their work forces," says Ronil Hira, an assistant professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Businesses are too far along in the process of globalizing their supply chains, building international production lines that draw ideas, components and resources from wherever they are best, most abundant or cheapest in the world.
Some other countries, meanwhile, have had a head start in terms of globalizing their mobile applications, the report finds.
Multinationals from developed economies are increasingly globalizing their R&D activities and are developing an "open innovation" model to source innovations from outside the firm, including from emerging economies such as those in Asia.
I pointed out that toward the end of Malcolm and Martin's lives, they were talking about globalizing their movements.
Moreover, as discussed below, patterns of morbidity and mortality differ among socioeconomic groups due in large part to differences in their relationship to globalizing forces.
Businesses, labor unions and conservation advocates have warned that global trade may cause a "race to the bottom," in which countries progressively lower their environmental, labor, taxation or corporate accountability standards to keep their producers competitive in globalizing industries.
"Both Sony and Microsoft are proposing that this could be their best launches ever as regards their production numbers and their ability to globalize this business quickly.
With the world's two biggest developing countries doing so well by globalizing in their own ways, it's no wonder much of the hot air has come out of the antiglobalization movement, which never did have any real alternative growth strategy.
One of the positive effects of tech accelerators has been their role in rapidly globalizing the startup community by removing the barriers to entry and providing access to capital for young companies that do not have the benefit of being headquartered in Silicon Valley.
