Globalization of Markets
GLOBALIZATION OF MARKETS
Theodore Levitt is often considered to be the first to recognize the trend towards globalization and states that: “companies must learn to operate as if the world were one large market – ignoring superficial regional and national differences…” In addition, he argues that the companies that do not adapt to the new global realities will become the victims of those that do.
Theodore Levitt’s 1983 article about the globalization of markets is one of the most discussed essays on this subject. Many companies have become disillusioned with the sales in the international marketplace as old markets become saturated and new ones must be found. Levitt in his essay asserts that well-managed companies have moved from emphasis on customizing items to offering globally standardized products that are advanced, functional, reliable and low priced. Only global companies will achieve long-term success by concentrating on what everyone wants rather than worrying about the details of what everyone thinks they might like.
According to Levitt a powerful force drives the world toward a converging commonality, and that force is technology. It has proletarianized communication, transport, and travel. It has made isolated places and impoverished peoples eager for modernity’s allurements. Almost everyone everywhere wants all the things they have heard about, seen, or experienced via the new technologies. Levitt wrote this essay in 1983. Today technology has been much more developed and there are lots of innovations that we face everyday. Facebook, iPhone, 3G communication are just a few examples we experience today.
Levitt says that the result is a new commercial reality-the emergence of global markets for standardized consumer products on a previously unimagined scale of magnitude. Corporations geared to this new reality benefit from enormous economies of scale in production, distribution, marketing, and management. By translating these benefits into
Theodore Levitt is often considered to be the first to recognize the trend towards globalization and states that: “companies must learn to operate as if the world were one large market – ignoring superficial regional and national differences…” In addition, he argues that the companies that do not adapt to the new global realities will become the victims of those that do.
Theodore Levitt’s 1983 article about the globalization of markets is one of the most discussed essays on this subject. Many companies have become disillusioned with the sales in the international marketplace as old markets become saturated and new ones must be found. Levitt in his essay asserts that well-managed companies have moved from emphasis on customizing items to offering globally standardized products that are advanced, functional, reliable and low priced. Only global companies will achieve long-term success by concentrating on what everyone wants rather than worrying about the details of what everyone thinks they might like.
According to Levitt a powerful force drives the world toward a converging commonality, and that force is technology. It has proletarianized communication, transport, and travel. It has made isolated places and impoverished peoples eager for modernity’s allurements. Almost everyone everywhere wants all the things they have heard about, seen, or experienced via the new technologies. Levitt wrote this essay in 1983. Today technology has been much more developed and there are lots of innovations that we face everyday. Facebook, iPhone, 3G communication are just a few examples we experience today.
Levitt says that the result is a new commercial reality-the emergence of global markets for standardized consumer products on a previously unimagined scale of magnitude. Corporations geared to this new reality benefit from enormous economies of scale in production, distribution, marketing, and management. By translating these benefits into