Island development: Local governance under globalization

globalization, development and governance (latin america’s experience)

globalization, as the most important change at recent age, depends on developing of science, technology and information. it has several effects on aspects of human activities such as social and political studies and changing ideas. moreover, power, the central concept in politics, has confronted different approaches. so, any subject, e.g. political development, needs re-definition and re-explan...

Local software development in industry globalization

This paper presents the results of a research project, in which the situation of local software organizations operating with global industrial customers were examined. The prospects of locally operating software organizations have been lately dimmed by the processes of globalization, IT outsourcing, and offshore software development. The current situation of local software organizations is anal...

Traditional Structures in Local Governance for Local Development

Social Inclusion Learning Program (CESI). Karen Sirker and Alex Widmer from the CESI staff provided many of the documents and contributed substantially to the final editing of the paper. We would like to thank the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) for the generous financial contribution to this Desk Study as part of the WBI-SDC Learning Partnership and Robert Ebel (WBI) for lau...

Corporate governance, globalization and firm productivity

We examine the relationship between globalization, corporate governance and firm productivity. The results, using longitudinal data from Korea, indicate that the positive effect of liberalising equity ownership on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) was reinforced by indirect managerial effects when a firm improved its corporate governance. Our findings also confirm that the interaction of t...

Chapter 1 GLOBALIZATION AND GOVERNANCE Miles Kahler