This book focuses on recent financial market reforms, and their implications for social, economic and political exclusion. In particular it considers the hitherto under-researched question of whose interests govern the design of regulatory mechanisms and who influences the decision-making...

This comprehensive book provides a reearch review of the critical papers that have been published in the fast-growing field of the globalization of higher education. They include work by a variety of noted scholars, such as Altbach, Clark and Marginson, which cover key areas of theoretical and...

This book acts as a welcome foil to current thinking on the concept of globalisation, which tends to be divided into two distinct camps: one which suggests that the neo-liberal model has triumphed and has no realistic alternative, and another which argues that globalisation, in its most extreme...

The world of multinational enterprises is changing dramatically. Their complex and dynamic international context presents them with special challenges--threatening their survival on one hand, and presenting them with unprecedented opportunities on the other. In this volume, international experts...

This book considers themes, evidence and ideas relating to the prospects for regional leadership in East Asia, with particular reference to China and Japan assuming 'regional leader actor' roles. Key issues discussed by the list of distinguished contributors include: the extent to which there is...

Contents: 1. Introduction: Setting up the stage -- 2. The conceptual framework -- 3. The empirical context: The global apparel value chain -- 4. The contest for value capture: Manufacturers and global brands -- 5. The contest for value capture: Labor as a claimant of value -- 6. The contest for...

Contents: Preface: Beyond China, China, China -- PART I INTRODUCTION -- 1. Actions and Reactions -- PART II CHINA -- 2. From China's Logistics to China's Geologistics -- PART III THE SILK ROAD ECONOMIC BELT: LANDBRIDGES, ECONOMIC CORRIDORS AND DRY PORTS -- 3. Landbridging Eurasia -- 4. Secondary...

1. The rise of authoritarian capitalism in the twenty-first century -- 2. Fantasizing authoritarian capitalism- a brief history -- 3. Globalization and the desire for authoritarianism -- 4. The market despots : the global capitalist fantasy of authoritarian nationalism -- 5. Developing...

1. Introduction / Hamid Etemad -- Part I: Examination of entrepreneurial orientation-performance relations -- 2. International entrepreneurship and performance: what are the important factors in markets with high cultural distance? / Elena Cedrola, Loretta Battaglia and Anna Grazia Quaranta --...

Introduction -- 1. Towards corporate self-regulation -- 2. Disciplining MNCs: corporate reputation as a driver of ideational change -- 3. Exploring the idea of a self-regulating corporation -- 4. Royal Dutch Shell's PR-led approach to self-regulation -- 5. The rise and fall and rise of the...