Some companies, like IBM and Sun Microsystems, use the term "globalization" for the combination of internationalization and localization.

The term globalization implies transformation.

Until recently, she said, she had no idea what the term globalization meant.

Before the term "globalization" was popularized, Debord was arguing about issues such as class alienation, cultural homogenization, and the mass media.

In fact, it is probably the increasing prevalence of international trade that is usually meant by the term "globalization".

Theodore Levitt, 81, German-born former editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of books on marketing, coined the term globalization.

When Mr. Bush's father left office the term globalization had barely entered the lexicon.

Long before the term "economic globalization" was current, British public servants often confused their economic involvement in the Arab world with the export of British values.

The globalization debate will remain hopelessly confused, in fact, unless we insist on qualifying the term globalization.

Role in developing the term "globalization"