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Transformations in global governance : implications for multinationals and other stakeholders

Vachani, Sushil (contributor) - 2006

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...

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Extraordinary cities : millennia of moral syndromes, world-systems and city/state relations

Taylor, Peter J. - 2013

Peter J. Taylor has produced a sweeping, empirically grounded, defense of cities as fundamental building blocks of long-term, large scale social structures; a way of freeing social science from state-centric bias; and indeed, mankinds hope. However, the single greatest strength of this complex,...

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China, Japan and regional leadership in East Asia

Dent, Christopher M. (contributor) - 2008

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...

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The political economy of financial market regulation : the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion

Weber, Beat (contributor); Schuberth, Helene (contributor); … - 2006

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...

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Good governance in the 21st century : conflict, institutional change, and development in the era of globalization

Ahrens, Joachim (ed.); Caspers, Rolf (ed.); … - 2011

This book explores the interdependences of economic globalization, political tensions, and national policymaking whilst analysing opportunities for governance reform at both national and international levels. It considers how governance mechanisms can be fashioned in order to both exploit the...

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International handbook of globalization and world cities

Derudder, Ben (ed.); Hoyler, Michael (ed.); … - 2012

This Handbook offers an unrivalled overview of current research into how globalization is affecting the external relations and internal structures of major cities in the world. -- By treating cities at a global scale, it focuses on the ‘stretching’ of urban functions beyond specific place...

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Globalisation, the global financial crisis and the state

Farrar, John H. (ed.); Mayes, David G. (ed.) - 2013

The recent global financial crisis has challenged conventional wisdom, and our conception of globalisation has been called into question. This challenging and timely book revisits the relationship between globalisation, the crisis and the state from an interdisciplinary perspective, with law,...

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The globalization of higher education

King, Roger - 2013

the Network Society', in The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, (2nd edn), 1, Oxford: Blackwell. -- Held, D …., A. McLew, D. Goldblatt and J. Perraton (1999), Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture, Stanford …

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The challenges of capitalism for virtue ethics and the common good : interdisciplinary perspectives

Akrivou, Kleio (contributor); Sison, Alejo G. (contributor) - 2016

: towards the ethics of the inter-processual self / Kleio Akrivou and José Víctor Orón -- 12. Prudence as part of a worldview …: historical and conceptual dimensions / Germán R. Scalzo and Helen Alford -- 13. Non-Western virtue ethics, commerce and the … normative virtue ethics theory, and seeks a deeper understanding on how the concept of prudence and the distinct forms of …

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The role of collective bargaining in the global economy : negotiating for social justice

Hayter, Susan (ed.) - 2011

This book examines the ways in which collective bargaining addresses a variety of workplace concerns in the context of today’s global economy. Globalization can contribute to growth and development, but as the recent financial crisis demonstrated, it also puts employment, earnings and labour...

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