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In today’s globalized economy, firms often consider offshoring when confronted by rising costs and fierce competition. One mode of offshoring has continued to grow despite the current global economic turmoil: the captive center. Captive centers are offshore subsidiaries or branch offices that...
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Thirteen million people in the United States--roughly one in ten workers--own a business. And yet rates of business ownership among African Americans are much lower and have been so during the last 100 years. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, businesses owned by African Americans tend...
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, China, or the former Soviet Union will cause a collapse of the welfare state and of society's well-being. "Globalization … reverse the commonly held view that globalization has caused today's insecure labor market. On the contrary, Cohen argues, our … own propensity for transforming the nature of work has created a niche for globalization and given it an ominous dimension …
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effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on the deteriorating system of financing welfare state benefits as … how the combined forces of demographic change and globalization will make it impossible for the welfare state to maintain … globalization of the capital market. Applying a political economy model and drawing on empirical data from the EU and the United …
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wit and accessible style to the subject of globalization. Notably, he argues that the true Clinton scandal lay in the … administration's mismanagement of globalization—resulting in the paradox of immense domestic policy success combined with dramatic … International Labour Organization instead of the WTO and via trade treaties. Bhagwati also criticizes the claim that "globalization …
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evaluates the significance of globalization for governmental trade policies and public attitudes about regional alliances. …
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the sometimes puzzling relationships among purity, price, and risk; the effect of globalization on the heroin and cocaine …
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change, shifting product markets, and globalization. Chips and Change also offers insights into how chip firms have developed …
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perpetual growth. But the consequences of addiction to growth are dire in an era of globalization. If a billion Chinese consume … a billion cars, the future of the planet is threatened. But, Cohen points out, there is another kind of globalization …: the immaterial globalization enabled by the Internet. It is still possible, he argues, that the cyber-world will create a …
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In Building Genetic Medicine, Shobita Parthasarathy shows how, even in an era of globalization, national context is …
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