Globalization and Transformations of Local Socioeconomic Practices

ISBN-13: 9780415541350 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 226 str.

Ulrike Schuerkens

Opis

Providing an overview of the transformation of socio-economic practices in the global economy, the contributors offer analytical and comparative insights at the world level, with regard to the current socio-economic practices as well as an assessment of the overall economical globalisation phenomenon in the global world.

Spis treści

1. Transformations of Local Socio-Economic Practices in a Global World: A Theoretical Approach and Some Empirical Evidence from Different World Regions  2. Contradictions of Social Responsibility: (German) Business Elites and Globalization  3. Negotiating Neo-Liberalism: Free-Market Reform in Central and Eastern Europe  4. Mobilizing International Auditing Standards in Arenas of Political and Economic Change in Post-Soviet Russia  5. China’s Response to Globalization: Manufacturing Confucian Values  6. The Export of Cultural Commodities as Impression Management: The Case of Thailand  7. Informal and Formal Economy in Caracas: Street Vending and Globalization  8. Common Roots, Shared Traits, Joint Prospects?: On the Articulation of Multiple Modernities in Benin and Haiti  9. Rethinking 'Free-Trade' Practices in Contemporary Togo: Women Entrepreneurs in the Global Textile Trade  10. Outcomes and Perspectives

O autorze

Schuerkens  is a Lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France)