Technological globalization: literature review methodology and framework

TECHNOLOGICAL GLOBALIZATION Methodology

In conducting a literature review, I attempted to identify the most salient issues affecting the current and impending trends in globalization so that I could effectively research them. Specifically, I was attempting to ascertain the various levels of stratification into which I could compartmentalize different facets of globalization. One can deconstruct globalization in many different ways: by the size and the scope of participating organizations, by their access to supplies and the management process associated with the supply chain, as well as by leadership issues related to expatriation and attempts to manage workers in foreign parts of the world. The potential problems that I can foresee involve merely encountering too many different aspects of globalization from a disparate perspective. Additionally, I will have to be able to quantify or evaluate the immediacy and relevance of the various facets of globalization I encounter, in order to properly categorize them and know which issues are the most eminent to discuss in this document.

Research Design

My approach was based on identifying publications of value (which included scholarly journals) and systematically scouring them for articles related to different facets of globalization. There are a number of search engines which I can utilize to obtain this objective. Many of these search engines are available through the library of my educational institution. After obtaining these articles, I plan to categorize them by subject and to prioritize them based on the frequency of subjects encountered. Therefore, topics that I encounter the most will receive the most attention in my writing of this document. I plan to initially categorize the article via the means of metadata (which in this case is provided by their titles, as well as by the statue of the publication -- since I am generally familiar with the most prominent Information Technology publications.

Analytical Procedures

There are a number of salient trends in globalization that I am previously familiar with and which I have studied in my coursework that will serve as the basis of analysis. The emergence of data as a viable resource to improve operations and business processes is one such trend, current emphasis on identifying cultural values and accounting for them from a managerial perspective is another such trend, the increasing reliance on cloud computing and third party service providers is another such trend. These trends will provide the framework in which to contextualize my findings, so that I can impute the proper significance to the results.