Tracing the roots of globalization and business principles /

The term globalization is too often defined by the results it produces, both positive and negative, as opposed to being defined as a socially engineered device naturally occurring as civilization progressed. It is a mechanism to manage the affairs of human beings as they provided for their mutual, b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beer, Lawrence A., (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2015.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:International business collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Exchange: the natural social imperative
  • 1. Globalization takes root
  • 2. Tracing the roots of globalization
  • Part II. Trade: a historical perspective
  • 3. The beginning of recorded trade
  • 4. The age of exploration
  • Part III. Building blocks of globalization
  • 5. The first global products
  • 6. Ancient societal infrastructures originating in and supporting commercialism
  • 7. Mediums of exchange and financial instruments
  • Part IV. Collateral influences on global commercialization
  • 8. Religion and the exchange process
  • 9. The influence of government on global trade and ancient secular, commercial, and legal regulations
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.