The present understanding of " globalization " is inextricably tied to the " free market " ideology for both proponents and opponents. This paper will argue that globalization has many potential forms of which the neo-liberal recipe, applied up to now, is only one. The need to recognize the whole planet as the economic space is inherent to the present technological revolution and its techno-eco...

Supply chains have been a concern for organizations since the early periods of the industrial revolution (Sarkis et al., 2011). Supply chain management as a research field is a more recent phenomenon. It has gained increasing importance as outsourcing and globalization have taken on greater roles. Supply chains are also facing immediate and long-term concerns about sustainability and sustainabl...

English language teaching (ELT) in Iran has experienced a turbulent history reflecting an often dynamic context and changing attitudes toward English, yet framed within a discourse of tolerance rather than one of embrace, as this study is going to show. The discourse was much brighter before the Islamic Revolution and this study reveals that there were much fewer adverse policies toward the spr...

this paper examines the political-economy and cultural dynamics and discourses underlying the emergence of the Palestinian Hamas and the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front. Both movements emerged in the late 1980s as responses to continuing (neo) colonial conditions in their countries. I explore to what extent the various processes commonly referred to as “globalization,” both the world-wide econ...

before constitution revolution, advocacy in our country governed by islamic law and lawyers introduced as a free profession in means of that law. after that revolution the government promulgated some rules for its regulation as an official profession. by act of bar association independence, this profession declared independent. many lawyers after islamic revolution have been filtrated and by th...