"This book draws on surveys carried out in five Asian countries - two low-income (India and Pakistan) and three middle-income (Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines) - where subcontracted production, usually by women and children working out of home, is now widespread. Home-ba…
"Globalisation is an issue that has been high on the research agenda for several years, spawning a vast and at times unwieldy literature. A concept often ill-defined, it has generated a plethora of unresolved and fiercely contested questions, the nature of which depends on which…
"The country of origin of goods and services can have positive or negative effect on customers' intentions to purchase. This book analyzes the impact of this effect on the international development of Italian companies in emerging markets. The chapters refer to a wide range of i…
The approach of the chapters that comprise this volume is academically rigorous and at the same time managerially relevant. The book helps to push the 'made-in' research agenda forward at the same time as it provides practitioners with new ideas that they can apply to their bran…
by Goria, Corinne, Akter, Kalpona
fromVoice of witness
The men and women in Invisible Hands reveal the human rights abuses occurring behind the scenes of the global economy. These narrators--including phone manufacturers in China, copper miners in Zambia, garment workers in Bangladesh, and farmers around the world--reveal the secret…
'Political Economy and Global Capitalism' is a timely and unique collection by a group of esteemed authors who explore the present and future of the global political economy.
"Preface Earth is our home, and it is in crisis. There are two sides to this crisis--our economy on the one hand, and its effect on the ecology of our home planet on the other. Our economy, the human-constructed part of our home, represents the collection of manufactured artifac…
