Contents: List of figures and tables -- Biographies of editors and contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Section i The publication process -- Introduction to section i -- 1 The contribution continuum revisited / Daniel M. Ladik and David W. Stewart -- 4: 2 John O. Summers (2001),...

Globalization, i.e. the spatio-temporal processes of change leading to a transformation in the organization of human affairs, is said to have started as long ago as the end of the 15th century. This first wave of globalization was subsequently followed by two others. The third wave of...