Authors:Lundan, Sarianna M Lundan,
Publisher: JAI Press
Keywords: global, strategic, management, research, competition, environment, multinationals
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2003-12-17
List price: $131.95
ISBN-10: 0762309660
ISBN-13: 9780762309665
The purpose of this book is to present leading research concerning the increasing strategic importance of environmental concerns within the multinational firm, and to explore the implications of corporate environmental strategy on public policy. The contributions present empirical research that deals with the simultaneous effects of the globalization of markets and the emergence of environmental concerns as issues of corporate strategy, either using a cross-national sample of firms within a global industry, or a sample of multinationals from a particular home country. By considering the dynami
Author: Ralph B. Alexander
Publisher: Canterbury Publishing
Keywords: global, warming, made, man, co2, causes, assertion, united, false, alarm, science, nations
Number of Pages: 178
Published: 2009-07-10
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0984098909
ISBN-13: 9780984098903
Have you ever wondered why so many people believe recent climate change is almost entirely the result of human activity, even when there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary? It’s because the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says so. This compact, readable book pulls apart the flawed science behind the IPCC’s assertion that man-made CO2 is causing global warming. Author Ralph Alexander exposes the IPCC’s deceptive manipulation of climate data, the roadblocks for the CO2 hypothesis favored by climate change alarmists, and the failed predictions
Author: Nuket Kardam
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: global, gender, local, rights, world, human, engagement, women, turkey
Number of Pages: 197
Published: 2005-08-30
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0754641686
ISBN-13: 9780754641681
Examining the rise of global women’s human rights and their interpretation and application to Turkey, Nuket Kardam provides an in-depth study that applies global norms - including women’s empowerment, overcoming violence against women, and gender and good governance to a specific locale in order to examine events post application. The volume examines whether a gender equality regime exists and looks into the Turkish attempt at compliance. Moreover, it analyzes the tension between abstract universalism, Western enlightenment values, and local values and identities, including the rol
Author: Ted A. Henken Ph.D.
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Keywords: studies, global, caribbean, america, handbook, cuba, latin
Number of Pages: 578
Published: 2007-10-03
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1851099840
ISBN-13: 9781851099849
Cuba: A Global Studies Handbook offers a revealing look at a nation that, in its ongoing pursuit of freedom, has been a colonial pawn, a neocolonial paradise for corrupt politicians and dictators, an alluring vacation destination, a defiant Communist holdout and embarrassing thorn in the side of the powerful United States. Drawing heavily on his own research and experiences on the island, the author follows CubaÕs political, economic, and sociocultural development from the pre-Columbian period to the present—with an emphasis on the revolutionary period. The bookÕs reference section include
Author: Victor J. Seidler
Publisher: Zed Books
Keywords: masculinities, global, lives, intimate, cultures, men
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2006-08-22
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 1842778072
ISBN-13: 9781842778074
The lives of young men in a globalised world are influenced by the mass circulation of images of men’s bodies, desires and sexualities, and the cultural masculinities of particular histories, cultures and traditions. Questioning universalist theories of ’hegemonic masculinities’, Young Men and Masculinities argues that young men often feel caught between prevailing masculinities and how they want to define themselves. It explores how the idea of men as ’the First Sex’ has been established within the West and how young men affirm their male identities in different
Authors:Board on Global Change, National Research Council,
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: change, global, influences, solar
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0309051487
ISBN-13: 9780309051484
Report assesses solar influences on global change in the light of new knowledge of solar and atmospheric variability. Paper.
Author: Nigel Driffield
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: global, competition, studies, routledge, labour, market
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 1996-05-01
List price: $240.00
ISBN-10: 3718656256
ISBN-13: 9783718656257
The author explains how many foreign-owned companies based in the UK pay higher wages in absolute terms than do domestically-owned firms, but not sufficiently high to match their even greater productivity. Hence, for foreign-owned firms the share of wages in output or in total income generated tends to be low. In view of this, important questions are raised regarding how global changes in the structure of production may affect labour markets and the organisation of work in the future.Although labour market research is now highly topical, few studies have considered the impact of multinational
