International business

FICHE SAS - INTERNATIONALISATION – SAS 2017

INTERNATIONALIZATION

• What does this mean?
• Globalization - « Mondialisation »

WHY SHOULD WE BE INTERESTED IN THE WORLD?

• Opportunities – for business, culture, and diversity in our lives

• Need to communicate with other peoples
• Sell ourselves and our ideas to people of other languages and cultures
• We need to communicate with them

• In a way that they hear us,
• In a way that they understand what we’re saying
• In the context of their culture

WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND OTHERS

This means we need to

• Know their language
• Understand their culture
• Understand how they communicate

WHATEVER OUR DIFFERENCES, WE NEED TO BE ETHICAL

• Be honest – with yourself and with everyone else
• Fulfill your obligations and responsibilities
• Treat other people the way you would like to be treated

You should remember a phrase attributed to Benjamin Disraeli and other British statesmen and popularized in the U.S. by Mark Twain:

"There are three kinds of lies:  Lies, damned lies, and statistics."

It’s not the statisticians who lie.  It’s usually people who manipulate statistics to bolster or support their arguments in favor of their own point of view.

10 LARGEST COUNTRIES BY AREA

1. Russia                17.1 million sq km
2. Antarctica        14 million sq km
3. Canada         10 million sq km
4. China                 9.6 million sq km
5. USA                9.5 million sq km
6. Brazil                 8.5 million sq km  
7. Australia         7.7 million sq km
8. India                 3.3 million sq km
9. Argentina        2.8 million sq km
10. Kazakhstan        2.7 million sq km
11. Algeria                 2.4 million sq km

France is N° 41 with 641,000 sq km

10 COUNTRIES BY NET NATIONAL WEALTH

        – 2016                 US$ billion (« milliard français »)

1. United States                 85
2. Japan                        24
3. China                         24
4. United Kingdom         14
5. Germany                 12
6. France                         12
7. Italy                         10
8. Canada                 8
9. Australia                 6
10. South Korea                 6

NATURAL RESOURCES – US$ TRILLION

1. Russia                 75
2. United States         45
3. Saudi Arabia         34.4
4. Canada         33.2
5. Iran                 27.3
6. China                 23
7. Brazil                 21.8
8. Australia         19.9
9. Iraq                 15.9
10. Venezuela         14.3

SOME EMPIRES THAT HAVE RULED OUR WORLD IN THE PAST

• Roman Empire
• French Empire
• British Empire – Growth

SOME MAJOR EMPIRES

• China – over the centuries
• Ottoman
• USSR – Soviet empire
• Charlemagne
• Napoléon
• Arabian
• Austrian
• United States – an empire?

MOBILE PHONES – 7,000,000,000+

                                           Phones            Population

1. China                    1322million        1371
2. India                1170                1311
3. United States         328                318
4. Brazil                 284                201
5. Russia                 256                143
6. Indonesia         237                238
7. Nigeria                 167                177
8. Japan                 147                127
9. Pakistan         133                181
10. Bangladesh         131                157

MAJOR LANGUAGES

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