Globalisation is often presumed to be an economically, socially and culturally homogenising force. The deterioration of capitalism’ s major rival in the early 1990s has paved the way for a truly global economy in which all participants increasingly operate under the general logic of capitalismÐ that is, a market-orientated system of production and exchange, private ownership and a ̄ exible labo...

Using cultural globalisation as a lens, this article examines the tensions between global and local in food tourism to support urban destinations realising their sustainability outcomes. This is achieved through investigating supplier perspective by drawing data from case study of cities York Sheffield, England. The findings shed light on how supply side representatives perceive these revealing...

Purpose: This article examines the theoretical aspects of businesses entering foreign markets within context globalisation. It highlights challenges and opportunities presented by globalisation, focusing on arrangement companies strategic approaches adopted when global markets. The purpose this study is to explore impact globalisation identify strategies for successfully Theoretical framework: ...

The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation This paper introduces two composite indices of globalisation. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalisation and show how globalisation has developed over time for different countries. The indices are composed of ...

This study investigates the effect of globalisation on governance in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011. Four bundled governance indicators and four globalisation (political, economic, social and general) variables are used. The empirical evidence is based on Instrumental Variable Quantile Regressions. The motivation for the estimation technique is that blanket governance-globalisati...

The relationship between globalisation and national identity is puzzling. While some observers have found that globalisation reduces people’s identification with their nation, others have reached the opposite conclusion. This article explores this conundrum by examining the relationship between globalisation and people’s feelings towards national identity. Using data from the International Soci...

Capitalist globalisation has produced certain negative consequences for human resources, industrial democracy and humanity, in general. Globalisation is a powerful force that cannot be denied, however, conversely, it has also threatened life, in a broader sense. Globalisation was perceived by globalisers as a worldwide remedy for worldwide problems, but is viewed with great pessimism amongst pr...

This paper argues that there are three factors, which counter the inevitable movement towards globalisation. Firstly the incremental force of technology as illustrated by the growth stage model of the development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is flawed. This model implies a linearity of development and an inevitability of stage following stage. While this stage model may pro...

Thinking about the ‘identity crisis’ of the modern institution of the university, I was wondering about the following most general questions: does the current passage to late modernity and to the information age, the decline of the role of the nation-state and the increasing power of processes of globalisation mean the inevitability of the radical reformulation of the social mission and tasks o...