Global Business Engineering: Contribution to a Concept for Successful Production and Business Development in Emerging Markets

Abstract

The world is changing. Our world as we know it, is about to change. This change isn’t going to be as quick and dramatic as some prophets want us to believe. But, it will change! Most of these changes aren’t to happen in our world – the 1th world – it will change the bottom of the pyramid – the 3th world. But the western country will have to face some dramatic changes, too. It will come to a migration from the high-tech industry to a service industry, earning most of its profit by using their knowledge. Globalization is not a phenomenon. Working in internationalized supply chains with worldwide, cross functional collaborations is the state of the art.1 Globalization is accelerating by low cost of communication and decreasing costs of shipping and transfer all over the globe. International integration is growing and rising exponentially since the 1980s. It is heated by a huge technical progress and the fall of trading barriers and custom duties. Since them, companies went over to work in cross organizational networks, learned to source and sell globally.