International Marketing Profession
Unemployment in the international market
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Unemployment in the international marketing profession is an instance of a seemingly narrow economic problem that, on closer examination, proves to be linked not only to many aspects of economics, but also to other social disciplines such as sociology, psychology, and organizational theory. Application of systems theory to this problem allows us to identify international marketing as a function of an emerging system, the global economy. Proceeding from this analysis we are able to gain a clearer understanding of the characteristics of unemployment in international marketing, and of probable future developments with respect to employment in the field. The problem of unemployment among international marketing professionals may appear at first sight to be merely one small thread in the economic tapestry, and one seemingly of interest only to international marketers and their families. However, the entire tapestry of the world economy, and of the global community of which that world economy is a part, is made up of innumerable such threads. In tracing the course of this thread, and identifying its relationship to a broad range of other elements and factors, we may hope to gain one illuminating perspective on the whole, in the same way that travelling along one road through a region gives one a perspective of the landscape through which the road passes. The goal of this study is to perform such an examination, and in the course of it to demonstrate t
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the dynamics of social systems.
We may find ourselves thrust into yet another social domain, that of psychology, by other features of structural unemployment. Consider the case of aerospace workers. Unlike Appalachian miners or inner-city youths, these are workers who might seem eminently adaptable into other sectors of the economy. Many are highly skilled, and their skills are of a modern, high-tech character that have generally not become obsolete, even if their specific jobs have disappeared.
But a job, and even the specific industrial setting of a job, is more than an economic function; to some degree or another it is a way of life, and a component of personal identity. Defense workers have built their careers within an industry with a distinctive culture and a perceived common mission that transcended ordinary commerce. To build America's defenses was a somewhat different, and to its practitioners a higher, calling than building washing machines. In becoming ex-defense workers, they, like people who become "ex-" anything, have lost a whole segment of themselves and their relationship to the world (Ebaugh, 1988). In accepting the need to seek work outside the defense industry, they must also accept the need to s
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