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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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This book explores the interdependences of economic globalization, political tensions, and national policymaking whilst … can be fashioned in order to both exploit the opportunities of globalization and cope with the numerous potential …, sociology and law to provide new insights into globalization processes, their causes and effects and to further develop the …
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This Handbook offers an unrivalled overview of current research into how globalization is affecting the external … divisions. The variety of urban outcomes in contemporary globalization is explored through detailed case studies. …
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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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-growing field of the globalization of higher education. They include work by a variety of noted scholars, such as Altbach, Clark and … Globalization, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. -- Braudel, F. (1985), 'The Perspective of the World', in Civilization …, Societies and Education, 8 (1), March, 23-37 -- Peter Scott (1998), 'Massification, Internationalization and Globalization', in …
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globalization : concentration vs. dispersion / Masatsugu Tsuji -- Iron town cluster : Yawata, its glory, decline and rebirth … comparative advantages, persistence and change in overall specialization / Luca De Benedictis -- Globalization, industrial …
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There is currently a popular view that the world is undergoing profound changes in the fundamental relationships upon which it is organised. In particular, there is widespread talk of a 'globalised' economy, facilitated by and associated with 'new' technologies and practices. There is a further...
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After more than fifty years of systematic research on multinational enterprises (MNEs) what is apparent is that there is, as yet, no unified or dominant theory of the MNE. The objective of this book is to bring into focus one particular dimension of MNE behaviour and activity that has been...
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This volume investigates the relationship between economic globalization and institutions, or global governance …, challenging the common assumption that globalization and institutionalization are essentially processes which exclude each other …. Instead, the contributors to this book show that globalization is better perceived as a dual process of institutional change …
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Multinational companies are crucial actors in a global knowledge-based economy, combining the advantages of global and locally coordinated production and innovation strategies with specific regional and national factors. This book questions how MNCs can best exploit institutionally embedded...
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