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‘Globalization’ was the by-word of the 1990s; it was to herald the creation of both world-wide markets and trans-national enterprises. Its theoretical origins are of great interest to contemporary debate. Adam Smith’s generalization that ‘the division of labour depends on the extent of the market’, is as valid today as it was in 1776. Marx, too, foresaw globalization as an eventual outcome of capitalism. But not all economists see globalization as a wholly deterministic phenomenon; some see it as both an endogenous as well as an exogenous factor ‘determined in its pace by governments, firms and other social actors, but influencing in its turn the behaviour of these same actors’ (Kogut and Gittelman, 1997:220). Economies of scale and scope do seem to depend on globalizing markets to obtain the benefits of globalization, hence Multinational Corporations (MNCs) strive to buy and sell as far and wide as they can. The...

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