This paper suggests four metaphors to correct our habitual way of thinking about globalization. It begins with the idea … that the world can be understood more effectively based on the properties of gases, rather than liquids; secondly, it … maintains that our world lacks outlying areas, in the sense that nothing, in fact, remains outside, peripheral or completely …

world in which states are facing the erosion of national sovereignty. The two concepts are being analyzed from various …

, transaction costs and agency problems. Then, corporate governance is linked to globalization by means of some recent approaches …