Book Description:
People around the globe are more connected to each other than ever before. Information and money flow more quickly than ever. Goods and services produced in one part of the world are increasingly available to the rest of the world. International travel is more frequent. International communication is commonplace. This phenomenon has been titled "globalization." "The Era of Globalization" is fast becoming the preferred term for describing the current times. Just as the Depression, the Cold War Era, the Space Age, and the Roaring 20's are used to describe particular periods of history, globalization describes the political, economic, and cultural atmosphere of today.

While some people think of globalization as primarily a synonym for global business, it is much more than that. The same forces that allow businesses to operate as if national borders did not exist also allow social activists, labor organizers, journalists, academics, and many others to work on a global stage.

This new book brings together recent important research in the field from around the world.

Table of Contents:
Preface

Chapter 1. Implications of Integration between International Business Strategies and International HRM: Case Studies of Japanese and Taiwanese Companies Operating in China, pp. 1-29
(Ying Zhu, Department of Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne, Australia, Imogen Chen, School of Communication, Culture and Languages, Victoria University, Australia, Takamichi Mito, Department of Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong)

Chapter 2. The Unruliness of Global Migration Under Globalization, pp. 31-86
(Dennis Conway and Todd Lindley, Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, In)

Chapter 3. HIV/AIDS and Business Response: Understanding the Context of Economic and Political Globalization, pp. 87-105
(Shelley K. White, Boston College Department of Sociology)

Chapter 4. From "Development Project" to Globalization: Understanding Third World Politics, Class Relations and Development Choices, pp. 107-124
(M. Saidul Islam, Dept. of Sociology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Chapter 5. Neo-Liberal Globalization or Pragmatic Planetization: Self and Civic Identity in a Planetary Era, pp. 125-146
(Stephen R. White and Peter J. Giampietro, Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA)

Chapter 6. Nested Choices in International Markets, pp. 147-167
(Felipe Ruiz, Juan L. Nicolau, Francisco J. Mas, Dpt. of Economía Financiera, Contabilidad y Marketing, Faculty of Economics, University of Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig (Alicante), Spain)

Chapter 7. Sustainable Development: Striving at Reconciling Stakeholders, Corporate and National Cultures, pp. 169-191
(Maud Tixier, ESSEC Business School, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France)

Chapter 8. Globalization and Economic Growth: Recent Cross-Country Evidence, pp. 193-203
(Rati Ram, Economics Dept., Illinois State University, Illinois, U.S.A)

Chapter 9. Globalisation, Economic Freedom and Strategic Decision-Making: A Role for Public Policy?, pp. 205-227
(David Bailey and Alex de Ruyter, Birmingham Business School, UK)

Chapter 10. Economic Globalization and its Constraints, pp. 229-251
(Igor Matutinovic, GFK - Center for Market Research, Nurnberg, Germany)

Chapter 11. Globalization for Maintenance Management Based on E-maintenance, pp. 253-277
(Bo-Suk Yang, Pukyong Univ., Busan, Korea)

Chapter 12. The Maastricht Globalisation Index: An Update, pp. 279-309
(Pim Martens, International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development(ICIS), Maastricht University, The Netherlands)

Index