1. Global Assembly Line 1986

2. “Threat of Capital Flight”
Often the threat of leaving
is enough to gain concessions
from workers, communities
and even countries.

3. Globalization, Logic or the Politics of Difference?
Story One
Capital
Mobility
Generalized
Prosperity
F.D.I.
Story Two
Capital
Mobility
Generalized
Misery
F.D.I.

4. Global Shift Two Main Themes
Why internationalize?
Rejection of the idea that Transnational Corporations
are “placeless”

5. Global Shift Two Main Themes
Stephen Hymer: Pioneer of Foreign Direct Investment
Raymond Vernon: Product Life Cycle Theory
John Dunning’s Eclectic Paradigm

6. Product Life Cycle Theory

7. Global Shift Two Main Themes
Dicken’s Take on the Reason for Globalization
Access to Markets
Competitive Pressures
Vertical Integration vs. Subcontracting/Flexible
Specialization

8. General Schema

9. Different Reasons for Going GLOBAL

10. Global Supply Chain vs. Flexible Specialization

11. National Character of TNC
United States vs. Japan vs. Germany

12. “Threat of Capital Flight”
Often the threat of leaving
is enough to gain concessions
from workers, communities
and even countries.

13. Globalization, Logic or the Politics of Difference?
Story Two
Capital
Mobility
Generalized
Misery
F.D.I.
Story One
Capital
Mobility
Generalized
Prosperity
F.D.I.

14. Self fulfilling Prophecyvs
“Wrestling is not just like life it is life.”
Donald Rumsfeld