1.3 Different Scales of Business Activity
Local, national and global operations, globalisation and deglobalisation, and the opportunities and impacts of multinational business.
How to study WJEC GCSE Business
Learn the concept, apply it to the named business and stakeholder, use qualitative or quantitative evidence, and make a context-limited judgement.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Operating scale changes market reach, supply chains, regulation, cost, communication and exposure to economic or cultural difference.
Exam cue: Identify the WJEC unit, business context, stakeholder and command word before selecting theory or evidence.
Concept 2
Globalisation increases cross-border flows of goods, services, labour and capital, while deglobalisation reverses or limits integration.
Exam cue: Balance one opportunity against one stakeholder cost and make the judgement depend on the named location, sector and scale.
Concept 3
Multinationals can bring jobs, technology, choice and multiplier effects but can also export profit, damage environments or weaken local identity.
Exam cue: Trace the decision through a business consequence, use qualitative or quantitative evidence and finish with a context-limited judgement.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Assuming global expansion is always beneficial or that every business selling abroad is a multinational.
Guardrail: Avoid generic chains, unsupported current figures and cross-board assumptions; make every point depend on the given business evidence.
Importing the legacy WJEC two-exam structure, the Eduqas route or an England 9-1 grading convention.
Guardrail: Use qualification code 3160QS or 3160CS and the four-unit untiered structure; do not import the legacy WJEC or Eduqas route.
Listing generic advantages and disadvantages without applying them to the named Welsh, UK or global business context.
Guardrail: Avoid generic chains, unsupported current figures and cross-board assumptions; make every point depend on the given business evidence.
Memory anchors
Local business
A business serving or operating mainly within a limited locality.
Globalisation
Growing international integration of markets, production, labour and capital.
Deglobalisation
A reduction or reversal in international economic integration.
Multinational business
A business with operations in more than one country.
Trade barrier
A government measure that restricts or raises the cost of international trade.
Multiplier effect
Further local income and activity generated when initial spending circulates.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
A Welsh jam producer ships occasional orders to France but has no operations outside Wales. Which statement is accurate?
A manufacturer opens a production site in Poland while keeping its Welsh headquarters. What has it become?
Answer all questions to submit.
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