Klappentext: Changes in both technology and global political economy have vastly accelerated the pace of globalization in the last 40 years, eroding barriers that limited firms' geographic scope, and unleashing a seemingly unlimited set of new threats, challenges, and opportunities to create...

The world economy at the end of the twentieth century is characterized by increasing cross-border awareness and interdependence among nations. Both international trade and investment have had manifold increases. Total world trade increased from 629 billion (in 1995 dollars) in 1960 by eight...