Political Science : Globalization

This is the first global assessment of the diffusion and impact of e-business as a basis for understanding how it is likely to evolve. It provides invaluable insights into the forces driving and inhibiting diffusion of B2B and B2C across countries and industries. more...

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Global Encounters explores new thinking about development at the global level. Bringing together leading scholars, the book investigates the ways in which development has become a significant consideration in International Political Economy. As such, it engages with a series of global encounters, between development studies, IPE and globalization: the state and global development; civil society networks and changing geographies of power and governance; global designs of regulatory change and more specific interests and agencies. more...

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Since the turn of the millennium, resistance to the liberal project of global governance has come to occupy centre stage in global and international politics. The Battle of Seattle, the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington and the Bush administration's ambivalent attitude towards multilateralism can all be thought of as conspicuous instances of the growing challenge to global governance. Global Governance, Conflict and Resistance provides a wide-ranging series of analyses of such challenges. more...

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The twin forces of ideological change and the technology revolution make globalization the single most important issue facing executives today. But many companies who have developed a presence in the global market now face the challenges inherent in creating a multinational presence with the demands of the 'unglobal consumer' who does not have a 'one size fits all' need. Here, HBS Professors John Quelch and Deshpande bring together 13 Harvard Business School professors to discuss these and other problems and benefits encountered by executives in global markets. Topics to be discussed include: operating costs of global advertising and marketing services, global product standards; managing global supply chains; global account management; global brands; global knowledge sharing and performance drivers; managing global customers; and social marketing for global economic development. more...

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The last decade has witnessed a revival of interest in the problems of modernity and modernization. In particular, three major processes have emerged as objects of debate:. " The transformations of capitalism manifested in globalization and. the unfolding of post-industrial society. " The rapid and strong economic development of countries outside the. West. " The political and economic transformations in the post-Soviet countries. of Eastern Europe. more...

Price: $119.00