Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Developing the analytical framework and contextualizing the phenomenon
- 1 Globalization and internationalization: the perspective of emerging countries
- 2 The analytical framework: the multinational as a network of competences
- 3 The first wave: early-movers and the earliest internationalization theories
- 4 The second wave: Japan and third world countries move abroad
- 5 On the threshold of the third wave: productive globalization and new multinationals
- Part II Multinationals from Brazil and other emerging countries
- References
- Index
1 - Globalization and internationalization: the perspective of emerging countries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Developing the analytical framework and contextualizing the phenomenon
- 1 Globalization and internationalization: the perspective of emerging countries
- 2 The analytical framework: the multinational as a network of competences
- 3 The first wave: early-movers and the earliest internationalization theories
- 4 The second wave: Japan and third world countries move abroad
- 5 On the threshold of the third wave: productive globalization and new multinationals
- Part II Multinationals from Brazil and other emerging countries
- References
- Index
Summary
Let Fame with wonder name the Greek no more,
What lands he saw, what toils at sea he bore;
Nor more the Trojan's wand'ring voyage boast,
What storms he brav'd on many a perilous coast:
No more let Rome exult in Trajan's name,
Nor Eastern conquests Ammon's pride proclaim;
A nobler hero's deeds demand my lays
(Camões, The Lusiads, as translated by W. J. Mickle in the eighteenth century)Those who go to sea prepare on land
The Portuguese navigations, sung by Luiz de Camões in his poem The Lusiads, significantly expanded the world as it was known in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. They are part of the globalization process, which should not be seen as a recent phenomenon, given that since humankind's earliest days, man has been venturing into new territories.
What caused the Iberian globalization project to stand out was not only its geographic, economic, and cultural scope, but the preparation process that preceded it. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the School of Sagres was a cornerstone for the whole venture. It was there that the project was conceived and planned, under the leadership of the bastard king D. João I, of his English wife Phillipa of Lancaster, who modernized the Portuguese court, and of their children and aides, not to speak of the heroes in the battles against the Spaniards and the Moors, all of whom played a relevant role.
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- Brazilian MultinationalsCompetences for Internationalization, pp. 13 - 40Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011