Comments on: #87 International vs Global http://www.deadlysins.info/wordpress/?p=548 How and why companies and managers fail in international markets. Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:58:41 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Amy Blasnick http://www.deadlysins.info/wordpress/?p=548&cpage=1#comment-100706 Amy Blasnick Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:17:49 +0000 http://www.deadlysins.info/wordpress/?p=548#comment-100706 The comparison of international business to global business fascinates me. At times it seems that these are very interchangeable words that talk about the same thing; however, after reading the post and looking into the context of the two meanings, they discuss very different concepts. While both global and international can mean the same thing to an associate working in international business, when researching the matter, international and global have different meanings. International business refers to doing business by means of importing and exporting. Where as Global business refers to companies that have a global investment and are present in a variety of countries. They not only display the same image and message of the company/ brand in multiple offices, they are internally set up to have a corporate headquarters that is responsible for delivering the overall global strategy. (Andrew Hines, Difference between a global, transnational, international and multinational company) In conversation international and global are very interchangeable, however, it is becoming more of a distinction in business. On an expansion of the above idea that international works in multiple countries. Inter-nation-al business has the clear message of having distinctions between nations and business units see this at the forefront of doing business overseas. From a global perspective there is not distinction between nations. It is expressed to show more of a dynamic and linked view of the economic factors that tie businesses together. After the 1980’s there was a large shift in the language of international to global. With new generations changing and economies growing, the word global downplayed the borders and other barriers businesses faced when going overseas into new markets. While the same policies and language barriers were still present with global business as international business, it was a matter of attitude and context that we were now doing business. Without seeing a dividing line on nations, businesses were able to grow stronger business partnerships. While this is not a proven reason to why the word shift occurred, from the distinction of the two definitions from MRops Blog, it seems that this is a very valid insight as to how the shift is continuing to grow. (http://mrops.com/the-difference-between-international-and-global/) The comparison of international business to global business fascinates me. At times it seems that these are very interchangeable words that talk about the same thing; however, after reading the post and looking into the context of the two meanings, they discuss very different concepts. While both global and international can mean the same thing to an associate working in international business, when researching the matter, international and global have different meanings. International business refers to doing business by means of importing and exporting. Where as Global business refers to companies that have a global investment and are present in a variety of countries. They not only display the same image and message of the company/ brand in multiple offices, they are internally set up to have a corporate headquarters that is responsible for delivering the overall global strategy. (Andrew Hines, Difference between a global, transnational, international and multinational company)

In conversation international and global are very interchangeable, however, it is becoming more of a distinction in business. On an expansion of the above idea that international works in multiple countries. Inter-nation-al business has the clear message of having distinctions between nations and business units see this at the forefront of doing business overseas. From a global perspective there is not distinction between nations. It is expressed to show more of a dynamic and linked view of the economic factors that tie businesses together. After the 1980’s there was a large shift in the language of international to global. With new generations changing and economies growing, the word global downplayed the borders and other barriers businesses faced when going overseas into new markets. While the same policies and language barriers were still present with global business as international business, it was a matter of attitude and context that we were now doing business. Without seeing a dividing line on nations, businesses were able to grow stronger business partnerships. While this is not a proven reason to why the word shift occurred, from the distinction of the two definitions from MRops Blog, it seems that this is a very valid insight as to how the shift is continuing to grow. (http://mrops.com/the-difference-between-international-and-global/)

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