TY - GEN
T1 - Does globalization benefit developed or developing country? - Case studies on Chinese and Australian construction industry
AU - Zhang, Peng
AU - London, Kerry
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Globalization has penetrated deeply into all areas of the world. The researches on this topic have been never stopped in recent years. The debate on globalization's benefits and concerns for develop and developing countries is still intense in recent years. This paper adopts Chinese and Australian construction industry as case studies to explore the answer for that debate. The International Advanced Index is used for the measurement of a certain country's construction industry's performance and position in the international market. The key findings are: both the developing and developed countries could be benefits from the process of globalization. However, because the advantages such as technology, education, finance and management, the growth rapid of developed country is much higher than developing country. It could lead to extend the gap between them.
AB - Globalization has penetrated deeply into all areas of the world. The researches on this topic have been never stopped in recent years. The debate on globalization's benefits and concerns for develop and developing countries is still intense in recent years. This paper adopts Chinese and Australian construction industry as case studies to explore the answer for that debate. The International Advanced Index is used for the measurement of a certain country's construction industry's performance and position in the international market. The key findings are: both the developing and developed countries could be benefits from the process of globalization. However, because the advantages such as technology, education, finance and management, the growth rapid of developed country is much higher than developing country. It could lead to extend the gap between them.
KW - Construction Industry
KW - Globalization
KW - International Advanced Index
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80051676202&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-23020-2_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-23020-2_13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80051676202
SN - 9783642230196
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 83
EP - 90
BT - Advances in Applied Economics, Business and Development - International Symposium, ISAEBD 2011, Proceedings
T2 - 2011 International Symposium on Applied Economics, Business and Development, ISAEBD 2011
Y2 - 6 August 2011 through 7 August 2011
ER -