Globalization and Transformations of Local Socioeconomic Practices

Herausgeber: Schuerkens, Ulrike

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative volume offers analytical and comparative insights into current socio-economic practices as well as an assessment of the overall economic globalization phenomenon. By looking at empirical case studies of different civilations and cultures, this volume assesses of intertwining of local socio-economic practices and global economic modernity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780415541350
• ISBN-10: 0415541352
• Artikelnr.: 35453868

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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