around the world. The common assumption is that globalization is merging the varieties of corporate capitalism. Yet, as this … book shows, corporations in Japan and the United States are responding differently to the pressures unleashed by … globalization. In <i>The Embedded Corporation</i>, Sanford Jacoby traces this diversity to national differences in economic history …

system that then existed in the world, and (c) the transition from a uni-polar world, with the U.S.A. as the single center of …

globalization processes in the world economy. Macroeconomic competitiveness affects many issues because of an advancing coherence of … economic growth. European Union (EU) also faces to challenges of globalization. Competitiveness and needed reforms present the … world impact. The aim of the paper is to analyse EU position in comparison with other world centres, i.e. BRIC, Japan and …

economies (U.S.A., Japan and EU). Furthermore, the article points out the changes in the economic governance forms (especially …The article characterises globalization tendencies in the world economy first, including their impact on the EU and … with respect to the state role). Globalization undermines the traditional shape of national economies and questions the …

international competition from EU, Japan, and later from China and the other emerging economies had played a pivotal role in the …