This volume offers a series of essays debating the topic of globalization - our increasingly integrated and interconnected world. Globalization and Multicultural Societies argues that the globalization process is a major catalyst in transforming contemporary society. Focusing primarily on Europe, this collection brings together writings by renowned intellectual, cultural, and political figures, such as Romano Prodi, Pierre Boulez, Jacky Mamou, and Franco Modigliani, that reflect on the key features and problems of globalization. Essays range across broad topics, including multinational...

This volume offers a series of essays debating the topic of globalization - our increasingly integrated and interconnected world. Globalization and Multicultural Societies argues that the globalization process is a major catalyst in transforming contemporary society. Focusing primarily on Europe, this collection brings together writings by renowned intellectual, cultural, and political figures, such as Romano Prodi, Pierre Boulez, Jacky Mamou, and Franco Modigliani, that reflect on the key features and problems of globalization. Essays range across broad topics, including multinational...

The present work is the first volume in a series devoted to an evolving Europe; it is the expression of a political will, expressed by Strasbourg's Robert Schuman University (and implemented by one of its components, the center for research (CESAG) of the IECS - Strasbourg), whose aim is to observe and analyze European realities, not based on idealized models of operation or on abstract patterns, but rather on observations made in the field, close to the action and to the life of the European citizen, as well as to that of the corporate world. In this light the IECS has decided to invite each...

Introduction Europe in Progress, Model and Facts is the second volume in the series Europe's Economic Future launched in 1994. It is in keeping with the will expressed by the University Robert Schuman and implemented by CESAG, the research centre of IECS Strasburg, to observe and to analyse European reality; not through idealized models or abstract diagrams but out in the real world, close to the lives and actions of Europe's citizens and companies. This research, undertaken by leading academic figures of different countries, offers a wide spectrum of reality in evolution and Europe's...

Das Phanomen strategischer Allianzen gewinnt weltweit zunehmend an Bedeutung. Unternehmen mit klar definierten Organisationsstrukturen geben ihre Entscheidungsautonomie auf und bilden zusammen mit auslandischen Unternehmen Netzwerkorganisationen, um auf diese Weise Wettbewerbsvorteile im globalen Markt zu gewinnen. Fuhrt diese Entwicklung zu einem neuen Kapitalismus oder zu einem Allianz-Kapitalismus? Was bedeutet dies fur die sozio-okonomischen Systeme der beteiligten Lander? Renommierte Wissenschaftler aus sechs Landern nehmen zu diesen Fragen Stellung."

Zwolf Autoren diskutieren Fragen zur Gestaltung der Beziehungen komplexer Organisationssysteme sowohl aus theoretischer Sicht als auch aus der Perspektive der vielseitigen Realitat, die zunehmend von der Globalisierung der sozio-okonomischen Umwelt gepragt wird."

The current work is the fourth volume in the series "Europe's Economic Future," edited by Strasbourg's Robert Schuman University, under the direction of Professor Sabine Urban, head of the CESAG-IECS research center. This series intends to analyze the European situation - not through idealized models of operation or abstract schemas - rather based on concrete observations, equally close to the actions and the life of the European citizen as of Europe's corporation and institutions. The studies that are presented here are not, however, simply descriptions; they refer to precise conceptual...