The emergence of cross-border communities and transnational associations requires new ways of thinking about the norms involved in democracy in a globalized world. Given the significance of human rights fulfillment, including social and economic rights, I argue here for giving weight to the claims of political communities while also recognizing the need for input by distant others into the deci...

The Integration-Responsiveness framework with the typology of international, multidomestic, global and transnational MNE strategies has become a standard in strategic management textbooks. Yet, despite this popularity, surprisingly little evidence exists for under which conditions each type of strategy is most appropriate. This paper revisits the typology using a contingency approach to derive ...

Concepts like knowledge society, information society, postmodern society, postindustrial society, Internet society, and network society fail to grasp the dialectic of the continuity and discontinuity of society. These concepts take the changes associated with new media as radical novelties and ignore the continuing dominance of capitalist structures. Contemporary capitalism is highly antagonist...

in the almost new literature of social capital, the concept has mainly been considered domestic, while we can find social capital beyond state borders. in this article social capital has been connected to international relations through micro and macro aspects. the effect of information technology on social capital is then mentioned on both domestic and transnational scales. information technol...

Globalization-the increasing transnational circulation of money, goods, people, ideas, and information worldwide-is generally recognized as one of the most powerful forces shaping our current and future history. How is it affecting healthcare, and in that context, what is the purpose and significance of Global Advances in Health and Medicine (GAHM), publisher of this journal? Our goal is not ho...

We explore the impact of a growing presence of transnational organizations upon civil and political liberties. Building upon previous world-polity research we evaluate qualitative and quantitative evidence from Southeast Asia between 1978 and 2002. We extend world-polity research by statistically evaluating the hypothesized influence of transnational organizations upon civil and political life,...

Recent accounts of transnational activism have examined a variety of social movement organizations (SMOs) but have paid little attention to labor transnationalism. This article utilizes and adapts this new transnational social movements scholarship to understand contemporary labor activism in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) countries. Exploring the preexisting networks and intra...

Much of the globalization literature and accompanying theory project that, as countriesintegrate into the global economy, they will converge towards a transnational and neoliberalversion of capitalism. It is presumed that this happens with the rise of international companies,which along with a transnational class of managers, enable the spread of neoliberal managementthinking. I...

The disciplinary separation between comparative politics and international relations is regularly challenged but persists as a result of institutional inertia and hiring practices. This essay uses the issue of democratization in an attempt to go beyond rhetoric and to develop a framework that integrates the role of transnational activism into the analysis of domestic regime change. Comparative ...