Introduction: Troubling Globalisation

Introduction: Globalisation, Value Chains and Development

Globalisation has become a catchword for the international economy in the late 20th century. It is a truism that nations have become more interdependent through the flows of goods, services, and financial capital since the 1 970s. The growing importance of export-oriented industrialisation has made integration into the global economy virtually synonymous with development for a number of nations...

Margaret McCartney: Troubling leadership.

Keith McNeil resigned as chief executive of Addenbrooke’s Hospital in 2015 shortly before the Care Quality Commission rated it inadequate. He was popular and highly regarded. But, like many other chief executives before him, he resigned after a short tenure, having found nurse recruitment expensive and difficult and in “challenging” financial circumstances. 3 His colleagues wanted him to stay. ...

Introduction to Special Issue on Globalisation, Culture and Mental Health

Troubling travellers: are ecologically harmful alien species associated with particular introduction pathways?

Prioritization of introduction pathways is seen as an important component of the management of biological invasions. We address whether established alien plants, mammals, freshwater fish and terrestrial invertebrates with known ecological impacts are associated with particular introduction pathways (release, escape, contaminant, stowaway, corridor and unaided). We used the information from the ...

Troubling Consequences of Online Political Rumoring

Fear that the Internet promotes harmful political rumoring is merited but not for reasons originally anticipated. Although the network accelerates and widens rumor circulation, on the whole, it does not increase recipient credulity. E-mail, however, which fosters informal political communication within existing social networks, poses a unique threat to factual political knowledge. A national te...