A recent study by Boyan Jovanovic and Peter Rousseau** notes a "monopolisation wave" at the end of the 19th century; a "scale-economies wave" in the 1920s; a "decade of greed wave" in the 1980s; and a "globalisation wave" starting in the late 1990s.
There are no easy answers, but we can be sure that carrying on talking about race as if the Obama presidency does not have a social and psychological impact on American society, or as if class politics had ossified in a pre-globalisation 1960s, or arguing that Obama is a black stand-in for Bush politics, means we are behind the times.
He was succeeded in the post by the almost equally controversial Rosabeth Moss Kanter (see article).What I've achieved, I think, is to make myself effective in some way, kept myself intellectually curious, alive and productive, and made myself interesting to myself.Levitt is sometimes credited with coining the term "globalisation" in a 1983 article, "The Globalisation of Markets".
FOR a country in which "globalisation" is a swear word and big business is treated with deep suspicion, France boasts an awful lot of big, globally successful companies.
How to retain its identity, not just within the EU but in a world of globalisation?
And how to remain competitive in a time of globalisation, paying our way in the world over the coming decades?
With French workers in a funk about globalisation, Mr Bayrou has joined those accusing China of undervaluing its currency.
As he remarked in a recent debate: "Globalisation is here, and I don't think Americans are afraid to compete.
In a world of globalisation and digitalisation, it is the fleeting, the human, the intimate, the intense encounters that matter more than ever.
He was tied in initially for three years, but has stayed, because of Downton Abbey, and because of the way crossfertilisation of the two business systems works in a period of globalisation of TV production, which assists expensive drama production.
