GLOBALIZATION: UNDERSTANDING,MANAGEMENT, AND EFFECTS -- GLOBALIZATION: UNDERSTANDING,MANAGEMENT, AND EFFECTS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- IMPLICATIONS OF INTEGRATION BETWEENINTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STRATEGIES ANDINTERNATIONAL HRM: CASE STUDIES OF JAPANESEAND TAIWANESE COMPANIES OPERATING IN CHINA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- GLOBAL INTEGRATION AND LOCALIZATION -- CASE STUDIES -- The Profiles of Cases -- INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STRATEGIES, VISION AND GOALS -- INTERNATIONAL STAFFING -- HQ VS. SUBSIDIARY: STRATEGY FORMULATION,CONTROL AND EVALUATION -- POLICIES AND PRACTICES OF GLOBALINTEGRATION AND LOCALIZATION -- HQ's Key Cultures and Policies to Follow -- Key Local Cultures and Norms to Deal With -- How to Integrate the Two Forces: HQ Control vs. Localization? -- The Assistance Provided for PCNs and TCNs to be Localized -- The Assistance Provided for HCNs to Get Familiar with HQ -- Languages for Communications -- The Obstacles for HCNs' Promotion -- Salary and Benefits for PCNs, TCNs and HCNs -- Future Improvement for Maintaining the Balanced Approach -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THE UNRULINESS OF GLOBALMIGRATION UNDER GLOBALIZATION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- A 'NEW AGE OF MIGRATION' IS HERE -- 'UNRULINESS' IS AN UNAVOIDABLECONSEQUENCE OF GLOBALIZATION -- Chapter's Main Themes -- THE GLOBAL CONTEXT OF THE 'NEW AGE OF MIGRATION' -- 1. Crisis-Laden Nature of Globalization's Economic, Social, Political andCultural Effects -- 2. Geo-Political Disruption & Change -- 3. Geo-Political Upheavals in the 21st Century -- UNRULY AND EMPOWERING' DIMENSIONSOF THE 'NEW AGE OF MIGRATION' -- 1. Increasing Transnationalism, Transnational Urbanism and a Benign Sideto 'Unruliness -- 2. Temporary Migration's Unruliness -- 3. Transnational Urbanism and 'Globalization from Below' -- 4. Intercountry Adoption's Unruliness.

UNRULINESS THAT ENDANGERS AND IMPERILS' IN THE'NEW AGE OF MIGRATION' -- 5. 'Irregular' and Unauthorized Migration and Human Rights Concerns -- 6. Growing Reliance on Intermediaries: The 'Commodification of Migration' -- 7. Forced Migration & Human Trafficking -- 8. 'Homeland Security' and the Politicization of Immigration Policy-Makingin the Global North. -- CONCLUSIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- HIV/AIDS AND BUSINESS RESPONSE:UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT OF ECONOMIC ANDPOLITICAL GLOBALIZATION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- HEALTH, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND GLOBALIZATION:A CONTEXT FOR RESEARCH -- EXAMINING PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH: HIV/AIDS ANDBUSINESS RESPONSE -- COST-EFFECTIVENESS OR HUMAN RIGHTS: BUILDING AN EFFECTIVERESPONSE TO HIV/AIDS -- The Shortcomings of Cost-Effectiveness in the Context of Our ContemporaryRace to the Bottom -- Human Rights Frameworks for HIV/AIDS and Business -- Human Rights and Global Trade: An Imbalance of Global InstitutionalPower Structures -- BROADENING THE RESEARCH AGENDA -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- FROM "DEVELOPMENT PROJECT" TOGLOBALIZATION: UNDERSTANDINGTHIRD WORLD POLITICS, CLASS RELATIONS ANDDEVELOPMENT CHOICES -- ABSTRACT -- FROM "DEVELOPMENT PROJECT" TO GLOBALIZATION -- DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE: LATIN AMERICA, ASIA, AND AFRICA -- NEO-LIBERALISM, GLOBALIZATION,AND THIRD WORLD DEVELOPMENT -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- NEO-LIBERAL GLOBALIZATIONOR PRAGMATIC PLANETIZATION:SELF AND CIVIC IDENTITY IN A PLANETARY ERA -- ABSTRACT -- THE PROBLEM -- The Neo-Liberal Ontology and the Fearful Citizen -- Teilhardian Ontology: The Individual in a Collective Global Society -- Perceian Citizenship: Fallibilism and Collective Inquiry -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- NESTED CHOICES IN INTERNATIONAL MARKETS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DETERMINANTS OF THE TWO-STAGE CHOICE PROCESS OF FDI:DIVERSIFICATION MODE AND OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE.

A. Country-Level Factors -- B) Firm-Level Factors -- RESEARCH DESIGN -- 3.1. Variable Measurement -- 3.2. Sample -- 3.3. Statistical Method -- RESULTS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: STRIVING ATRECONCILING STAKEHOLDERS, CORPORATE ANDNATIONAL CULTURES -- ABSTRACT -- A CONTEXT OF CERTAIN GLOBALISATION -- ATTEMPTS AT HARMONIZATION TO VARIOUS DEGREES -- Regulations, Norms, Behaviour Codes…? -- Attempts at Boosting Overall Coherence -- Striving Towards a Tougher Regulation -- AN ABUNDANCE OF STAKEHOLDERS -- CULTURAL VARIATIONS -- THE CULTURE OF BUSINESS SECTORS -- THE CORPORATE CULTURES -- Alcatel-Lucent Organisation and Business at the Heart of Cultural Diversity -- The Alcatel-Lucent Codes and Charts -- Danone (Giraud, 2005) Organisation and Local Proximity -- Its « Double Project » and the « Danone Way » -- EDF -- NATIONAL CULTURES -- Alcatel-Lucent (Mille et Bégaud, 2005)14 -- Danone (Giraud, 2005)15 -- Anglo-Saxons vs. Europeans -- The United States -- Asia -- ATTEMPTS AT GLOBAL/LOCAL BALANCE -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: -- REFERENCES -- GLOBALIZATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH:RECENT CROSS-COUNTRY EVIDENCE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MODEL, DATA, AND THE MAIN RESULTS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- GLOBALISATION, ECONOMIC FREEDOM ANDSTRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING:AROLE FORPUBLIC POLICY? -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DIMENSIONS OF FREEDOM -- WHAT IS 'ECONOMIC FREEDOM'? -- 'FREE'MARKETS, GLOBALISATION AND STRATEGIC FAILURE -- TOWARDS A MACRO-BALANCE ANDMICRO-DIVERSITY OF FREEDOMS? -- STRATEGIC VERSUS MARKET FAILURE APPROACHES TO POLICY -- TOWARDS A 'DEMOCRATIC GLOBALISATION'VIA EXPANDED POSITIVE FREEDOM: ACCOUNTABILITY,DEMOCRACY AND PARTICIPATION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION:THE EXPLORATION OF CONSTRAINTS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 2.1 The Model -- ANALYSIS.

3.1. The Exceptional Role of Cultural Constraints -- 3.2. Structural Change and the Loss of Socioeconomic Diversity -- 3.4. The Autocatalytic Nature of Economic Interactions -- 3.5. .Economic Globalization and Entropy Production -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- GLOBALIZATION FOR MAINTENANCEMANAGEMENT BASED ONE-MAINTENANCE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 The First Generation -- 1.2 The Second Generation -- 1.3 The Third Generation -- 1.4 The Fourth Generation -- 2.MAINTENANCE ISSUES -- 3. E-MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES -- 3.1 Intelligent Maintenance System Center (IMS) -- 3.2 Machinery Information Management Open System Alliance (MIMOSA) -- 3.3 PROTEUS [6] -- 3.4 DYNAWEB -- 3.5 TELMA Platform -- 4. E-MAINTENANCE SYSTEM INTEGRATING ADVANCED TECHNIQUES -- 4.1 Maintenance Center Structure -- 4.2 Local Maintenance Subsystem -- 5.MAINTENANCE STANDARDS -- 5.1 IEEE Std 1451 -- 5.2 ISO 13373-1 -- 5.3 IEEE Std 1232 -- 6. KEY FACTORS FOR SUCCESSFUL MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT -- 7.MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT FOR INTEGRATEDCONDITION ASSESSMENT -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- THE MAASTRICHT GLOBALISATION INDEX:AN UPDATE*,1 -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE MGI: DOMAINS &INDICATORS -- 2.1 Global Politics -- 2.2 Organized Violence -- 2.3 Global Trade -- 2.4 Global Finance -- 2.5 Social and Cultural Aspect -- 2.6 Technology -- 2.7 Globalisation and the Environment -- 3. CALCULATION OF THE MGI -- 3.1 Transformation -- 3.2 Geographical Adjustment -- 3.3 Normalization -- 3.4 Index Scores (Ranking) -- 4. EVALUATION OF THE INDEX -- 4.1 Relevance -- 4.2 Robustness -- 4.3 Added Value -- 4.4 Transparency -- 5. CONCLUSION -- 5.1 Steps Forward -- 5.2 Criticism -- 5.3 Future Research -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.