STRATEGY AND SANCTITY: A CORPORATE ISSUE?

Abstract

In a New Yorker article, “Alone with the Secretary General,” Michael Ignatieff (1995) tells of watching, with Boutros‐Ghali, a CNN report of the Serbian attack on Zepa. At the time, the reporter was with the U.N. Secretary General in the “jungles of Zaire,” another nation‐state crumbling or about to crumble. Boutros‐Ghali's reaction was a simple phrase, “‘This is globalization’” (p. 37). The line captures the two sides of globalization. On the one hand, the ubiquity of CNN, its global reach, creates the immediate global village‐“News from around the world every thirty minutes.” Zepa is as near, perhaps as familiar, as Dayton. Yet the veneer of global community masks the ever‐present global disunity: a new world disorder, factionalism, opening seams of ethnic divisions, and new walls of religious and cultural intolerance.

Citation

Hayward, M. (1995), "STRATEGY AND SANCTITY: A CORPORATE ISSUE?", Competitiveness Review, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb060189