Social transformation, development and globalization

Rapid Agrifood System Transformation , Globalization , and International Development

Description of the Topic: In 1999 there was an AAEA preconference on “Agroindustrialization, Globalization, and International Development;” that started a ball rolling of integrating agribusiness and development work among agricultural economists. The emphasis in 1999 was on the “midstream” of food supply chains, specifically on the rapid rise of large-scale agri-processing firms in developing ...

Development, Social Transformation and Globalisation

That may seem rather unnecessary: social transformation is a commonly used expression and not particularly new. Generally it implies an underlying notion of the way society and culture change in response to such factors as economic growth, war or political upheavals. We may have in mind the ‘great transformation’ (Polanyi 1944) in western societies brought about by industrialisation and moderni...

Globalization Challenge and Management Transformation

To implement and operate an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, knowledge transfer is an important method toconstitute effective Knowledge Management (KM) systems and develop effective transfer strategies to enhance competitiveadvantage. In this paper, an agent-based knowledge transfer framework is presented for ERP life cycle, and discussions about therelationship between th...

Globalization and Social Policy

Globalization and Financial Development in Nigeria

Globalization is a worldwide phenomenon. The concept globalization is a very recent term only establishing its current meaning in the 1970s, which emerged from the intersection of four inter related sets of communities of practice, academics, journalists, publishers. This paper models the channels through which globalization affects financial sector development in Nigeria. To this end this stud...