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How globalisation affects the small scale business ?

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Question added by Manoharan Vallamunji Kasinathan Vallamunji , Purchase Engineer (Supply Chain Management) , ITR MIDDLE EAST
Date Posted: 2014/04/29
Jahabar Sadiq Ifthikar
by Jahabar Sadiq Ifthikar , Senior Procurement Specialist , University of Hafr Al-Batin

This is a well-known anecdote referring to the impact of globalization on small businesses. Once you start up a new business, you plunge into an ocean populated by a few smaller fish, which compete with you for food, and lots of bigger ones, eager to eat you alive. The big fish in the sea tend to be well-connected, multinational beasts taking full advantage of the perks of globalization – such as outsourcing, uneven exchange rates, and low-margin high-volume sales models – making them nearly impossible to compete against. 

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