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The Political, Legal and Technological Environment
TERMS
Individualism – The political philosophy that people should be free to pursue economic and political endeavours without constraint
Collectivism – The political philosophy that views the needs or goals of society as a whole as more important than individual desires
Socialism – A moderate form of collectivism in which there is government ownership of institutions and profit is not the ultimate goal.
Democracy – A political system in which the government is controlled by the citizens either directly or through elections.
Totalitarianism – A political system in which there is only one representative party which exhibits control over every facet of political and human life.
Principle of Sovereignty – An international principle of law which holds that governments have the right to rule themselves as they see fit.
Biotechnology – The integration of science and technology to create agricultural or medical products through industrial use and manipulation of living organisms.
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT
Domestic and international political environments have a major impact on MNC’s. As government policies change MNC’s must adjust their strategies and practices.
Underlying the actions of a government is the ideology informing the beliefs, values, behaviour and culture of the nation and its political system.
Effective management occurs when different ideologies and philosophies are recognised and understood.
A political system can be evaluated along two dimensions
Focuses on the rights of citizens under governments (ideology of the system)
Measures whether the focus is on the individuals or broader collective (Degree of individualism/collectivism)
Democratic = individualism
Totalitarian = collectivism
Ideologies
Idea is that working in in a group requires less energy per person to achieve the same goal, but an individual will work as hard as he or she has to in order to survive in a competitive environment.
Team performance is negatively influenced by those who consider themselves individualistic; however, competition stimulates motivation and encourages increased efforts to achieve goals.
Collectivism
No rigid form of collectivism as societal goals and the decision of how to keep people focused on them differ greatly among national cultures.
Socialism
A broad political movement and forms of it are unstable. In modern times it has branched into two extremes:
Communism – extreme form of socialism which was realised through violent revolution and was committed to the idea of a worldwide communist state.
Social democracy – refers to a socialist movement that achieved its goals through nonviolent revolution.
Nationalisation of a business – transference of ownership of a business to the government. This may be done due to:
Ideologies of country encourage the government to extract more money from the firm
Government believe the firm is hiding money
Government has large investment in the company
Government wants to secure wages and employment stages so jobs are not lost
Nationalism – an ideal whereby an individual is loyal to their nation.
Democracy
A democratic society cannot exist without at least a two party system.
Individual freedoms, such as freedom of expression, are...
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