Globalization and global governance

Globalization, Transnational Corporations and the Future of Global Governance

Managing dynamic global sourcing relationships through knowledge governance Keywords: Sourcing, Knowledge governance, Globalization, Relationships

The paper will discuss managerial knowledge challenges in global sourcing relationships faced by two small and medium enterprises (SMEs) competing in a highly globalized industry (textiles). Each company has changed its global sourcing setup due to the continuing globalization of their manufacturing and distribution activities; and in this process have experienced how the relational set-up in t...

Corporate governance, globalization and firm productivity

We examine the relationship between globalization, corporate governance and firm productivity. The results, using longitudinal data from Korea, indicate that the positive effect of liberalising equity ownership on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) was reinforced by indirect managerial effects when a firm improved its corporate governance. Our findings also confirm that the interaction of t...

Chapter 1 GLOBALIZATION AND GOVERNANCE Miles Kahler

Globalization and social determinants of health: Promoting health equity in global governance (part 3 of 3)

This article is the third in a three-part review of research on globalization and the social determinants of health (SDH). In the first article of the series, we identified and defended an economically oriented definition of globalization and addressed a number of important conceptual and metholodogical issues. In the second article, we identified and described seven key clusters of pathways re...