The paper constructs a picture of globalisation from workers’ perspective in a newlyindustrialising area in India. It brings together the insights of the spatial approach, whichfacilitates an integrated study that links various levels at which global capitalism operates,with an attention to...

Das Internet und die multimedialen Möglichkeiten des World Wide Web habendazu geführt, dass eine neue Industrie um die innovativen Technologien und Geschäftsmodelleentstanden ist. Mittlerweile wird - in Abgrenzung zu den Geschäftsmodellender Old Economy - von der New Economy gesprochen.So...

A recent phenomenon of globalisation has come to be known as "Knowledge Process Outsourcing" (KPO), whereby knowledge-intensive R&D work is outsourced to an outside firm or an offshore-subsidiary. Primary motives of KPO are thought to be availability of highly-skilled labour, locations of...

Trotz einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Reorganisationskonzepte haben sich in den letzten Jahren die Geschäftsprozesse als zentraler Betrachtungsgegenstand organisatorischer Umgestaltungen herausgebildet. Während Geschäftsprozesse in der Fertigung seit langem methodisch beherrscht sind,...

In 1967 Marshal Hodgson (the godfather of global economic history) wrote these percipient words: “Without the cumulative history of the whole Afro-Asian Oikumene of which the Occident had been an integral part, the western transmutation would be almost unthinkable”. Alas, the recommendation...

This paper explores the ways in which global resourceallocation affected the pattern of Japanese (and later East Asia’s)industrialisation, and how it eventually came to underpin the courseof Japanese imperialism and aggression in the 1930s.The Western impact on Asia during the second half of...

In industrializing countries new groups of consumers with remarkable purchasing power are emerging. Representing a “new middle class” they are seen as a carrier and promoter of a so-called “western way of life” beyond the OECD countries. They are presented as having a consumerist...