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| The integration of economies throughout the world, enabled by innovations and technological progress |
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| Individual gain of knowledge about what is going on around the world, etc. |
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| Delegation of company's key operations to a subcontractor that specializes in that operation |
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| Assembly plants located on the Mexican side of the U.S. Mexico border |
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| Companies set up entire factories in countries such as China to mass produce and lower costs |
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| Web sites allowing users to add, remove or edit content |
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| Applications that allow people worldwide to communicate |
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| The combination of economic and political factors that influence a region |
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| Global Information Systems Strategy |
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| Produce identical products in large quantities for a variety of different markets |
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| Individualism/Collectivism |
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| Value placed on the individual vs. the group |
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| Multidomestic Information Systems Strategy |
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| Suited strategy for operations in markets differing widely |
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| Differences in how societies handle the issues of human equality |
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| Transnational Information Systems Strategy |
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| Some operations centralized with others not, bring flexibility and economics of scale |
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| Home-Replication Information Systems Strategy |
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