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The issue of outsourcing jobs abroad stirs great emotion among Americans. Economic free-traders fiercely defend outsourcing as a positive for the U.S. economy while critics contend that corporate desire for low wages solely drives this practice. In this study I focus on a specific type of...
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Paul Samuelson's recent article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives (2004) started drawing attention even before it was officially published (Fingleton, 2004). His conclusions go against the weight of 200 years of trade theory in concluding that international trade can, at times, result in...
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The India's most exploited people, the Dalits, have been raising voice against the ongoing process of globalisation … view of the fact that there are positive aspects to globalisation. This paper brings to light how the marginalised social … groups like the Dalits can effectively use globalisation to achieve what they have not been able to achieve so far with the …
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What allows MNCs to maintain their sustainability practices over the long term? This is an important but under-examined question. To address this question, we investigate both the development and sustenance of sustainability practices. We use the dynamic capabilities perspective, rooted in...
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Much has been written about the current crisis in the global financial system, and many thoughtful analyses have examined the causes and consequences of that crisis. This paper joins those analyses that argue that the crisis reveals flaws in the theoretical underpinnings of capital market...
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to point out how the new elements are linked to the phenomenon of globalisation. We shall analyse particularly the …
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The main approach of this study of globalisation is historical. We look at three periods in world history when the most … posed by globalisation to the People's Republic of China. It is suggested that the most pressing task is to strengthen the …
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of globalisation, in other words the logic of internationalised market capitalism conflicts with a substantive definition …
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The article refers to a definition of globalisation in three perspectives, namely the development of territorial … orientation it is aimed at developing a historical perspective on globalisation that refers not simply on an increasing loss of … investigating a broad outline of the changing process of production. In this light, globalisation is not seen as a linear process …
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-views. With regard to the challenges that globalisation presents this position attains strong relevance and requires careful …
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