The purpose of this article is to explore effects of ongoing economic globalization by focusing on the organizational and informing aspects of the key globalization stakeholder – the transnational corporation. This is an organization with superior capabilities rooted in digital information and information technology. It is argued that the transpired globalization driven by transnational corpora...

How are they related to each other? This chapter seeks to answer these questions. Answering the first is simple. Obviously, the current world order cannot be fully understood without taking ‚globalization‛ into consideration. The effects of Globalization reach every corner of the world in different scope and degree. Why is ‚civilization‛ important? It is important because civilization incorpora...

This paper estimates a structural New Keynesian model to test whether globalization has changed the behavior of U.S. macroeconomic variables. Several key coefficients in the model such as the slopes of the Phillips and IS curves, the sensitivities of domestic inflation and output to “global” output, and so forth are allowed in the estimation to depend on the extent of globalization (modeled as ...

T here has been a basic tension between the stated objectives of Middle Eastern leaders to integrate their countries into the world economy, on the one hand, and the actual, tangible levels of this integration, on the other. Consequently, the non-democratic states of the Middle East have consistently lagged behind in such globalization indices as foreign direct investment (FDI), competitiveness...

Globalization is certainly a source of anxiety in the U.S. academic world. And the sources of this anxiety are many: Social scientists (especially economists) worry about whether markets and deregulation produce greater wealth at the price of increased inequality. Political scientists worry that their field might vanish along with their favourite object, the nation-state, if globalization truly...

A sociology of globalization has come into existence in recent years as both an umbrella for a number of traditional sub-fields and also as a theoretical enterprise. Social scientists have attempted to theorize worldwide social transformations in recent decades and to conceive of a global system with its own emergent properties. Among the most widely-cited scholars in this emerging field is Sas...

INTRODUCTION At first sight the link between globalization and food intake appears to be rather remote. However, its influence can be substantially high, although it works mostly through employment, incomes, prices and the market influence on food preferences. Globalization means bringing the domestic economy closer to the international economy in many ways. It is a consequence of liberalizatio...

The articles by Carruthers and Halliday and by Hagan, Levi, and Ferrales in the present issue of Law and Social Inquiry provide a wonderful opportunity to carry out a brief reflection on the broader field of research on globalization and law. As the discussant and organizer/chair, respectively, of a panel on “Law between Globalization and National Institutions,” from which these two articles em...

The modern concept of globalization in health care and clinical research often carries a positive message for the "Global South" nations of Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. However, bioethical abuse of participants in clinical trials still exists in the Global South. Unethical studies directed by the "Global North", formed by the medically advanced nations in North America, Western Eur...

Globalization and its Negative Consequences The peculiar current form of Capitalism rechristened as 'free market economics' goes by the motto of "trade, not aid", no matter how uneven the former may be, and despite the fact that equal relations between unequals simply reinforce inequality. In line with the above, Globalization – Capitalism's corresponding new flagship – is creating wealth for t...