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CONTENTS * Introduction to Globalisation Page 2 * Varying Levels of Globalisation Page 2 * Change in Management Structures Page 4 * Management Controls Page 5 * Transfer of Information Page 6 * Evolution of the Global Firm, Product or Geography? Page 6 * Conclusions Page 7 * References and Bibliography Page 8 * Appendices Page 9 Globalisation Globalisation is defined as "tightening international linkages on a world-wide scale". (De Wit and Meyer, 1988). As barriers to the movement of capital and tariffs are eliminated, some global organisations providing typically standardised products to world markets have in the extreme, become more powerful than nation states. (Dicken, 1998). The global firm, as opposed to the multinational firm operates with resolute consistency, at low relative costs, as if the entire world, (or major regions of it) were a single entity; in other words it sells the things in the same way everywhere1. Global Integration is leading to the promotion of international best practice through the sharing of knowledge and...

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