UNLIMITED, BLURRED LIMITS IN A BORDERLESS WORLD

Flexible Systems Approach to Management in a Borderless World

The managerial issues in a borderless world are becoming far more intricate and complex and requires to be handled differently at different levels in diverse situations. There is a need to resolve the paradoxes in literature regarding various schools of thought, and as a response to this a flexible systems approach to management is presented in this paper as a spectral and integrative paradigm....

Capital, state and space: contesting the borderless world

The globalization of economic activities and transnational corporations (TNCs) has led us to think that we are entering a ‘borderless’ world. Some prophets of globalization argue that it has led to the end of geography. To them, the state has ceased to be an institution capable of exerting influences on the activities of transnational capital, which has also become increasingly ‘placeless’. Thi...

Borderless science and borderless arts: past and present.

Today, a successful career in science makes one international or global. People move laboratories and change countries. Researchers collaborate and interact around the globe. The notion of the international nature of science was prominent in the recent BBC program “Desert Island Discs,” in which the guest was Sir Andre Geim, a physicist and the winner, with Konstantin Novoselov, of the 2010 Nob...

The Migration of Elites in a Borderless World: Citizenship as an Incentive for Professionals and Managers?

third world intellectuals in v. s. naipaul’s fiction: the mimic men, a bend in the river, magic seeds

this thesis attempts to study the representations of the third-world intellectuals in three fictional works by the british-educated trinidadian nobel-winner v. s. naipaul: the mimic men, a bend in the river, and magic seeds. the first one recounts the story of ralph singh’s sense of alienation, his experiences as a colonial politician, and his struggle to give order to his disorderly world thro...