... that each nations economy is becoming less self-contained and more integrated into a global network of production. In its earliest phases internationalisation began with an expansion in foreign trading. The encouragement of businesses such as the East India Company, who invested in trading activities, plantations and mining ventures to supply raw materials to industrialising centres, signified the start of, what was possibly, the beginnings of a shift in the "economic hierarchy". As the evolution of the capitalist market continued, eventually instigating the birth of the Industrial Revolution, the number of companies taking part in this type of international activity increased and international trade grew. As time progressed companies were able to implement different business strategies as a result of the capital accumulated through this prosperous economic period. The most important of these strategies was the development of Singer Sewing Machines' first overseas production unit in 1867; signalling the arrival of ...

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