International Business

Chapter One Summary.
The International Pastime.
The International Baseball Federation now has 112 member countries, but most of it’s history, baseball was poplar only among North Americans. Aslate as 1986 about 86 percen of MBL players were US Born; by 2007 the number dropped to 72 percent. The Average MLB Clubhouse is now a bastion of multilingual camaraderie, with players and coachestalking baseball in Spanish, Japanese, and Korean as well as English.
The Wide Wolrd of Televised Sports.
Not surprisingly, other professional sport groups have been quick ti expand their global TVcoverage.
And tv isn’t the only mmeans by which sports organizations are building overseas fan bases and seeking to attract international player personnel.
With the growth of broadband , we’ll soon enterthe realm of Thousand-channel TV , were we’ll be able to tune into sporting events that currently appeal only to highly localized niche markrts.
Introduction.
Globalization refers to the broadeningset of independent relationships among people from different parts of the world theat happens to be divided into nations. The term sometimes refers to the integration of world economies through thereduction of barriers to the movement of trade, capital, technology and people.
We’ve altered the way we want and expect to live, and we’ve become more deeply affected by conditions outside ourimmediate domains.
The changes that have led firms to consider ever more distant places as sources of supplies and markers affect almost every industry and in turn, consumers.
What is InternationalBusiness?
Globalization enables us to get more variety, better quality or lower prices. International Business consists of all commercial transactions-including sales, investments and transportation- thattake place between two or more countries. Private companies, undertake suck transactions for profit; governments may undertake them either for profit or for political reasons.
The study of...