Punjabiyat or Punjabi identity evokes simultaneous contradictory images of a splintered identity, yet a potentially powerful economic, political and cultural force. This paper attempts to capture different aspects of this contradictory nature by situating the conflicting pulls on Punjabi identity in the context of the ongoing process of globalisation of economy, politics and culture. One aspect...

Funding bodies and policy imperatives increasingly favour comparative research. Stimulated also by the phenomena of globalisation and the concomitant rise of globalisation theory, researchers in media, communication and cultural studies increasingly find themselves initiating or invited to collaborate in multinational comparative projects. Given the growing prominence of comparative media and c...

In the age of globalisation and the information society, access to technology is one of the most critical and controversial subjects. Young people everywhere are faced with the challenge of attempting to broaden their horizons and become global citizens yet often their governments and domestic infrastructure do not support this requirement. Due to financial restrictions, development priorities ...

The globalisation of the software market has changed the contextual boundaries of IS research and practices to include the wider societal context. Some attempts have been made to document differences amongst IS professionals from different nations, but most of these studies have compared IS or IS related issues in only two countries mainly by using an ethnocentric approach (the same research is...

Sport, like so many other facets of life, has been affected by globalisation. By crossing national boundaries, globalisation, often also termed modern imperialism or Americanisation (Donnelly, 1996), has the ability to affect sport's various processes. This becomes more evident during mega events and when observing the traditional winners or the strongest nations. Paul De Knop and Sandra Hartho...

In today’s rapidly changing and highly competitive global environment, offshore outsourcing (contracting of a portion or all of the software development function to software engineers outside the home country) teams working across national borders and virtual organisations have become a fact. The globalisation of the software market has also changed the contextual boundaries of information syst...

today, in times of globalisation, intercultural competence is required more than ever before. therefore, language institutes are advocating and keen to train their students in intercultural competence too. accordingly, they ensure that their teachers include teaching additional cultural information about the country of the language being taught in their courses. the fact is, however, that durin...

From a social systems theory perspective, globalisation can be conceptualised as an evolutionary social process. By fusing systems theories, evolutionary theories, and organisation theories, globalisation becomes apparent as a historical social process, which encompasses the emergence and reproduction of social systems such as firms or other organisations within the wider process of the globali...