Exploring the Multidimensionality of Globalization: Perspectives and Insights

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore and discuss the multiple complexities of the phenomena of globalization under the microscope of different perspectives, and not just the relative simplicities of the different disciplines that deal with it. This approach leads us to ask: can we engage the phenomena of globalization – globally. Methodology: Starting with the insights of Ohmae (1995), Bartlett and Ghoshal (2000) and others from globalization literature, this paper will explore the different perspectives of globalization namely: globalization of the natural environment, global economics, globalization of political/legal environments, and global technologies under the umbrella of global interconnections. This paper will also describe the insights from the arguments of the skeptical, the hyper-global, and the transformational viewpoints. Significance: Living in a global world of interconnectedness and interdependence, it is important to give comprehensive, holistic and enhanced understanding of globalization from multidiscilplinarity view point as the effects of globalization simultaneously affecting the individual as well as at a world systemic level. It can also raise the bar of corporate decision making to the better level, being more informed individual, organizational participant and citizen of nation by the interdisciplinary perspectives.