BACKGROUND This study aims at understanding the mechanisms underlying the dramatic decline of the retail prices of major drugs like cocaine and heroin during the past two decades. It also aims at analysing the implications of this decline for drug policies. METHODS We use a theoretical model to identify the possible causes of this price decline. This allows us to formulate the hypothesis that...

How will globalization affect higher education? Will globalization, the scientific community, and the Internet level the playing field in a new age of knowledge interdependence? Or will globalization produce worldwide inequality and the McDonaldization of the university? Is globalization responsible for all of the contemporary pressures on higher education—from “massification” to the growth of ...

this article intends, by examination of historical background, hypotheses, frameworks and the characteristics of globalization and anti globalization theories as well as analyzing the culture and power theories at national and international levels, to consider and evaluate the issue, by representing a brighter perspective of globalization and power on one hand, and different kinds of power and ...

introduction there is no need that globalism and localism be mutually exclusive; and at the same time, global and local extensions are important for understanding, when the topic of globalization is the case (roberts, 2008). globalization has indubitably caused local, national, and international sections to meet and intertwine in ways that have historically been unimaginable. the discourse of g...

SUMMARY Globalization has been an established term academically for two decades; research within this field has expanded from globalization of markets to globalization of culture, trade, finance, of almost anything, in accordance with the increasing pace of globalization in today's ever-more interconnected world. Previous global strategy research has focused on companies based in developed econ...

This paper presents a general model of a Group Management Service (GMS) which is designed to support collaborative interactions among groups of distributed users using di erent applications. There are two main bene ts of such a service. Firstly, it would be easier to implement new collaborative applications because of the possibility to use an existing service. Secondly, it would be possible fo...

Globalization as a concept surpasses mere openness to symbiotic economic relationship. refers the level of and positive attitude towards products, values ideologies other people cultures. The study reviews existing literature on impact globalization work ethics across globe tries observe possible trends convergence among several countries. Most reviewed studies revealed significant ethics. more...