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Pearce, Emma Kate. "Scripting globalisation : globalisation discourse in Australian business media /." Title page, synopsis and table of contents only Title page, synopsis and table of contents only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09LR/09lrp3592.pdf.
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McCrossin, Toby. "Jamming globalisation /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arm132.pdf.
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Hochraich, Diana. "Globalisation et développement." Grenoble 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000GRE21048.
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Les travaux présentés portent sur les changements économiques et sociaux connus par un certain nombre de pays d'Asie en développement, à savoir les Pays du Sud-Est asiatique, la Corée, Tai͏̈wan et la Chine. Nous étudions d'abord les changements économiques mais en y intégrant des dimensions sociales et institutionnelles. Deux processus très différents au départ, mais qui se rejoignent par la suite sont abordés : la déconstruction des relations sociales de type socialiste d'une part (Chine), les changements provoqués par le démarrage d'une industrialisation qui devait être porteuse de développement de l'autre. Dans les deux cas, il s'agit de pays qui cherchent à rattraper le niveau de développement des pays capitalistes avancés, alors que leur parcours historique diffère de ces derniers. Les pays que nous étudions ont un trait commun : ils sont arrivés au capitalisme par contact avec une force extérieure, ils n'ont pas atteint un degré de développement industriel économique et social comparable à celui des pays capitalistes avancés. Aussi, les travaux que nous avons publiés s'articulent-ils autour de la question : le sous-développement peut-il être considéré comme un simple retard ou, au contraire comme une dépendance des pays sous-développés à l'égard des pays avancés ? Nous essayons de montrer que les difficultés des tentatives de sortir du sous-développement sont dues autant aux caractéristiques propres aux pays sous-développés qu'au fonctionnement du marché mondial. En ce sens, nous partageons l'idée que le sous-développement est une forme de dépendance à l'égard des pays sous-développés et que c'est cette dépendance qui empêche le développement.
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Sharma, Seetal. "Globalisation and postcolonial identity." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262348.
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Vavoura, Charikleia. "Globalisation and superstar firms." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49673/.
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Strong empirical evidence points towards an extremely skewed distribution of exporters, corresponding to a few “superstar” firms operating alongside a fringe of small competitors. Superstars are characterised by superior efficiency, increased access to financial capital and, unlike fringe firms, by the ability to internalise the impact of their behaviour on the market. We develop a model in order to examine how productivity differences result in different abilities to invest in cost-reducing innovation which, in turn, allows firms to expand to the extent that they can exploit their market power. We then introduce international trade into this model and calculate the impact of increasing trade openness on aggregate welfare. We show that incorporating productivity heterogeneity jointly with differences in strategic behaviour generates a composition effect that dampens the pro-competitive effect of trade liberalisation. This effect materialises through a market share reallocation from smaller towards larger rivals. We find that, although trade always increases welfare by reducing the average markup and markup heterogeneity, gains from trade are lower when market power distortions are more severe. Consequently, in the presence of such distortions, size-dependent policies could have a welfare-enhancing role to play. We then use an appropriately augmented version of our model to account for the role of credit constraints differences between superstars and smaller enterprises. We examine how an economy’s financial development affects the welfare gains from trade and explore the role of large firms. We show that trade benefits less financially developed countries more and that the oligopolistic inefficiency resulting from the presence of large firms crucially alters theoretical predictions of the gains from trade. We go on to investigate the effect of trade with a more financially developed partner and find that it could act as a substitute for financial development by diminishing the impact of domestic credit market and oligopolistic inefficiencies.
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周凱詩 and Hoi-sze Elsie Chow. "Globalisation and poverty: planners' roles." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31260779.
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Skons, Elisabeth. "The Arms Industry and Globalisation." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522574.
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This dissertation examInes whether the arms industry is globalising. Although it is a broadly accepted view that the arms industry is glob ali sing, it is not always clear what this involves and there is little empirical evidence available to support this view. More importantly, the view that the arms industry is glob ali sing is often based on a meaning of globalisation that is not distinctively different from the meaning of internationalisation. This study is based on the view that the question whether the arms industry is globalising is meaningful only if the concept' globalisation' has a distinctly different meaning from the concept 'internationalisation'. Based on an extensive review of the globalisation literature, and especially of the literature on economic globalisation, three main features of globalisation are identified: (i) increased pace and global scope of economic cross-border activities (i.e. increased internationalisation); (ii) transformation of multinational companies into truly transnational companies; and (iii) a reduced government capacity to regulate and control cross-border activities. If these features are true for the arms industry, then globalisation of the arms industry would involve a radical change from during the cold war, when there was little internationalisation of the arms industry apart from government-to-government international armaments collaboration; when arms-producing companies were not transnational; and when governments were able to exercise control over their respective arms industries. This study examInes the intensity and global scope of international transfers of major weapons and the intensity and scope of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the Euro-Atlantic arms industry and analyses the impact of these trends on government control over the arms industry. It also discusses the extent of transnational companies in the arms industry and other trends in the arms industry that may be considered evidence of globalisation. The main focus of the study is on cross-border M&As in the Euro-Atlantic arms industry. The reason for this is that this trend, which has enlerged during the postcold war period, is one of the factors most often referred to as evidence of arms industry globalisation. However, so far there has been no systematic mapping of this trend, primarily due to the lack of comprehensive data. This study is based on a new data set on cross-border M&As. It covers the Euro-Atlantic area, since this is the area where most of the global arms industry is located. This is true in particular for the most advanced private arms industry, which is the most likely to be affected by the economic forces underlying globalisation.
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Bajgar, Matej. "Essays on firms and globalisation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cdee11d5-263e-4d9a-a11f-10e0f019bc2a.
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This dissertation consists of three stand-alone substantive chapters. It examines how various aspects of globalisation - openness to international trade, inflows of foreign direct investment and exposure to foreign demand shocks - affect economic performance through their impact on individual firms. The first substantive chapter presents a theoretical model of international trade with heterogeneous firms that differ not only by their productivity but also by the distortions they face. For a particular distribution of productivity and distortions, it shows that the distortions which affect the domestic and export sales in the same way and are correlated with productivity reduce the welfare gains from trade, while the distortions affecting only domestic sales tend to increase them. In addition, it documents that correlated distortions lead to a bias in an influential recent method for estimating the gains from trade. The following chapter empirically examines the link between the presence of multinational companies and the export sophistication of domestic firms in an emerging economy. The analysis is based on the matched firm and customs panel data from Romania covering the period 2005-11. The results show a positive relationship between the unit values of goods exported and imported by Romanian firms and the multinational companies' presence in downstream (input sourcing) industries. These results are consistent with quality upgrading being an additional channel through which local suppliers benefit from contacts with their multinational customers. The last chapter examines how Romanian manufacturing firms reacted to a dramatic drop in the export demand during the global trade collapse of 2008 and 2009. The exogenous effect of a fall in exports is identified by instrumenting exports with a firm-specific index of foreign demand. The results indicate that exporting firms were unable to redirect their sales to the domestic market and were forced to abruptly reduce their employment, material expenditure and investment, passing the shock to their suppliers. The results suggest that the export status of a firm may be a poor predictor of its vulnerability to a negative foreign demand shock.
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Smith, Nicola Jo-Anne. "'Globalisation' and the Irish Republic." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288657.
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Bamberry, Larissa. "Globalisation, gender and teachers' employment." Connect to full text, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1956.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2006.Title from title screen (viewed 10th October, 2007). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Policy and Practice, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney. Degree awarded 2006; thesis submitted 2005. Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in print.
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Peeters, Jolanda Johanna Wilhelmina. "Globalisation, location and labour markets /." [Nijmegen] : [Universiteit Nijmegen], 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb377258142.
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Chow, Hoi-sze Elsie. "Globalisation and poverty : planners' roles /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25247761.
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Holtz, Brigitte Elke. "Resistance and reactions to neo-liberal economic globalisation and its institutions : exploring the 'anti-globalisation' movement." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53031.
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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2002.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In recent years, so-called "anti-globalisation" protesters have become an expected, though to many an unwelcome feature at almost all meetings of international institutions and at intergovernmental summits. The protesters are usually portrayed as senselessly violent anarchists, ridiculed in the media as eccentrics and outsiders, while academics have as yet paid them little or no attention. This study attempts to determine whether the predominantly negative perception of the protesters is justified, or whether there is some merit to their concerns. The vague umbrella term anti-globalisation protesters tends to disguise the fact that many different and diverse groups are involved in the protest. Elements of social movement studies are drawn upon to structure the analysis of a number of groups that are represented on occasions of protest. The analysis reveals that the protests are well-organised, active in international networks, and rely very much on the internet to co-ordinate their efforts. From the perspective of social movement studies, the anti-globalisation league represents an interesting new phenomenon. This is due to its simultaneous presence in a multitude of countries, as well as its non-state focus. Effectively, the movement transcends state boundaries and state structures. The changing face of international politics is at the root of the formation of the antiglobalisation movement. A perceived loss of sovereignty and increased international multilateral co-operation has reduced the effectiveness of domestic and state-based campaigning and created an opportunity, if not the necessity, to form transnational groups that have international institutions as their focal point of protest. It is submitted that the movement may be a source for unconventional ideas that could go some way in addressing various problems related to the ever-advancing process of globalisation. This may be accomplished by way of greater formalisation of the movement, and possibly with support from other prominent voices who are not anti-globalisation activists as such, yet in essence share many of the concerns of the protesters. In this way, the anti-globalisation movement could develop into a credible entity to complement the functioning of existing international institutions.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Protes aksies teen globalisering is gedurende die laaste paar jare 'n bekende, maar nie noodwendig 'n welkome verskynsel by feitlik alle vergaderings van internasionale organisasies en staatsberade. In die algemeen word die protesteerders beskou as gewelddadige anargiste, en word hulle in die pers as eienaardige buitestaanders beskryf. Academici het tot dusver ook nie veel aandag aan hierdie verskynsel bestee nie. Die doel van hierdie studie is om vas te stelof die meestal negatiewe opvattings van deelname in aktiewe protes teen globalisering geregverdig is. Die besware van die aktiviste is dalk realisties en nie ongegrond nie. Die vae begrip van anti-globalisering protesteerders is misleidend, omdat dit die groot aantal verskillende groepe tydens die protesaksies verberg. Beginsels van sosiale bewegingsstudies is geraadpleeg om die analise van verskeie groepe wat by protesaksies teenwoordig is, te struktureer. Hierdie analise wys dat die deelnemers aan protesaksies goed georganiseerd is, en dat hulle baie aktief is in internasionale netwerke, en hoofsaaklik op die internet staat maak om hulle bedrywighede te koordineer. Vanuit die standpunt van sosiale bewegingsstudies is die anti-globalisering aksie 'n baie interessante verskynsel omdat die beweging in baie lande teenwoordig is, en omdat dit nie staatsentries is nie. Staatsgrense en tradisionele staatstruktuure word dus oorskry. Veranderinge in die internasionale politieke arena is beslis die rede vir die vorming van die anti-globaliseringsbeweging. Dit word beweer dat die toename in internasionale multilaterale samewerking die trefkrag van aktivisme binne die grense en die konteks van die staat verminder het. Die geleentheid, en dalk noodsaaklikheid, is dus geskep om internasionale groepe te vorm wat hul protes op internasionale organisasies fokus. Die studie stel voor dat die beweging dalk die oorsprong van onkonvensionele idees kan wees wat baie van die negatiewe effekte en probleme wat verbonde is met die globaliseringsproses, sal aanspreek en help om hulle op te los. Voordat dit kan gebeur, moet die beweging egter 'n meer formele vorm aanneem, 'n proses wat beslis gesteun sal word deur groepe en indiwidue wat nie noodwendig anti-globalisering aktiviste is nie, maar wel baie van dieselfde belange het. Op hierdie manier sal dit dalk moontlik wees vir die anti-globaliseringsbeweging om "n geloofwaardige entiteit te word, wat die werk van bestaande internasionale organisasies sal komplimenteer.
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Wilfred, Felix. "Globalisation and Cultures - The Other Voice." Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, 1997. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/bet,628.
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Heyer, Damien Gordon. "Globalisation in China : a cultural perspective /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arh6157.pdf.
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Mohammadi, Alamuti Masoud. "Critical rationalism and macrosociology of globalisation." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1431.
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This thesis employs Critical Rationalism—an inter-subjective theory of rationality originated in Karl Popper’s conjectural theory of knowledge— in order to develop a new macrosociology of globalisation. It describes contemporary globalisation as the formation of a liberal globality through which the centrality of the Hobbesian struggle for political power has been superseded with the Lockean competition for economic interests. But the thesis argues that liberal globalisation suffers from fundamental societal deficits due to a global organisation of people based on economic competition rather than rational dialogue and social cooperation. The central question of thesis therefore is that ‘how emerging utilitarian-based liberal globality can be transformed into a global society of free and equal citizens?’ The thesis argues that people’s potential access to critical rationality enables them to agree upon one set of globally shared values concerning the equality of people and people-centric global institutions, which are required for creating a global society of free and equal citizens. Through its macrosociological analysis the thesis addresses the question of how such a system of globally shared values can operate as the cultural driving force of a radical global institutional change from the Lockean logic of economic competition to the Kantian logic of dialogue and social cooperation. The thesis concludes that intellectuals can employ the ideal-type of an open global society of free and equal persons in order to persuade global social movements to work for realising such a fundamental global institutional change towards a just and free global society.
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Smith, John. "Imperialism Si the Globalisation of Production." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527055.
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Eagle, Simon. "Approaches to globalisation : a critical evaluation." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245735.
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Dale, Nicholas R. "The globalisation of the Latvian economy." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389818.
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Feicheng, Wang. "Globalisation and labour market in China." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41382/.
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This thesis empirically investigates the relationship between globalisation and labour market outcomes by exploring Chinese data. It is motivated by the fact that China has experienced a rapid pace of globalisation in the past two decades and has witnessed increasing wage inequality at the same time. It is a collection of three self-contained studies that examine the effects of various aspects of globalisation on employment or wage inequality. Chapter 1 presents research background and general motivations, followed by a simple description of the outline and the structure of the thesis. Chapter 2 explores the relationship between globalisation and inter-industry wage differentials in China by using a two-stage estimation approach. Taking advantage of a household survey dataset, this study estimates the wage premium for each industry in the first stage conditional on individual worker and job-related characteristics. Alternative measures of globalisation are considered in the second stage; trade openness and capital openness. The regressions do not reveal a significant relationship between overall trade (import and/or export) openness and wage premia. However, disaggregation of trade into trade in intermediate and final goods is shown to matter. Increases in import (export) shares of final goods tend to reduce (increase) the wage premium significantly, whereas imports or exports of intermediate goods do not explain differences in industry wage premia. This finding is supported by stronger effects for final goods trade in coastal than non-coastal regions. Our results also show a positive relationship between capital openness and industrial wage premium, though this relationship is less robust when endogeneity issues are allowed for. While Chapter 2 focuses on wage differentials across industries, Chapter 3 turns to wage inequality within industries. Specifically, this chapter examines the relationship between average income of exporting destinations and skill premium using Chinese manufacturing industry-level data from 1995 to 2008. To do so, we construct weighted average GDP per capita across destinations employing within-industry export share to each industry as weights, and then link it with industry-level skill premium. Empirical evidence shows a positive correlation between average destination income and average wages, which is consistent with existing literature. More importantly, we find that industries that export more to high-income destinations tend to pay a higher skill premium, suggesting that skilled workers benefit more from high-income exports than unskilled workers on average. IV estimates confirm causality and this positive relationship identified is robust to the inclusion of additional control variables. However, the positive relationship only applies to ordinary export whereas processing export tends to induce a reduction in skill premium. Our results also reveal a stronger effect during the post-WTO accession period when China integrated into the world economy rapidly. The findings in this study provide evidence in support of the relationship between export destinations and within-industry wage inequality. Chapter 4 incorporates labour market conditions and investigates whether the nature of firm-level employment adjustment is affected by the flexibility of the labour market. We take advantage of the differences in local labour market conditions created by the non-uniform implementation of the hukou reform in China. Then we identify the employment effects of the reform by comparing firms in reform regions to those in non-reform regions. Combining firm-level and city-level data, we adopt a difference-in-difference approach. Empirical results find that firms exposed to the hukou reform have higher employment on average than similar firms without the reform, which indicates that a more flexible labour market allows for an easier employment adjustment. We then extend our empirical framework to explore the conditioning effects of the hukou reform on employment adjustment following trade openness. Consistent with our expectations, firms respond to trade shocks by increasing employment relatively more with the presence of the hukou reform. These findings offer important implications to the current labour market reform in China and to other developing countries with inter-region labour movement barriers like India and Vietnam. Finally, Chapter 5 summarises main findings of the thesis and briefly discusses potential directions for future research.
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Hunter, Roderick Dundas. "Curating 'the eternal network' after globalisation." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2019. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/ace49e4a-c7c1-406d-9762-5286c65f7233.
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This practice-based research project investigates the production, distribution and reception of network art practice before and after globalisation. It does so to engage with the Internet as 'the most material and visible sign of globalisation' (Manovich 2001) whose emergence as the pre-eminent network technology arrives concurrently with the disappearance of its utopian promise. Taking Robert Filliou's 1968 conception of The Eternal Network as a starting point, the research seeks to understand the opportunities and limitations of network art practice through identifying and developing a range of curatorial and artistic methods in practice. Methodologically, it presents the researcher as an artist-curator-performer. Doing so enables 'inhabitation' (rather than 're-enactment') of the concepts and principles of Filliou's work. Filliou thus becomes a medium of research for the development of network art practice after the Net and vice versa. Curating only the second edition of The Art-of-Peace Biennale becomes the primary output of the research. Filliou conceived of the Biennale in 1970, proposed it in 1982 and René Block organised the first edition at the Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, in 1985. The contemporary edition, The Next Art-of-Peace Biennale 2015-17, occurred mainly but not exclusively through the online platform, www.peacebiennale.info. It did so to respond to the radical shift in modes of online production, distribution and reception since the first edition. The research describes, contextualises and reflects on the emergence of The Next Art-of-Peace Biennale 2015-2017 and describes a final exhibition, What is Peace? (Answer Here), held in 2018. It presents a contribution to knowledge through artistic and curatorial practice exploring online and offline exhibition-making, video, performance, correspondence art and writing. Through developing an ontology of 'curatorial behaviour' exploring the 'locations', 'durations', 'materialities' and 'interactions' of network art practice, the research identifies artistic and curatorial principles able to withstand the 'high-tech gloom' (Thompson 2011, p. 49) of mendacious globalisation in a late Web 2.0, postmedium condition.
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Tupy, Marian L. "Globalisation and equality : a libertarian perspective." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14009.
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Why are some people rich and others poor. Why are some states more prosperous than others. In answering these questions, the public and scholars alike often take the rarely challenged position that economic inequalities result from past or present discrimination or other forms of injustice. Evidently, few believe that all economic inequality is produced by injustice; slackers are despised for their unwillingness to help themselves; countries with failing economic policies do not go uncriticised. Nevertheless, the belief that economic disparities arise because of calculated injustice is deeply ingrained. Underlying this conviction is the assumption that "given equal opportunity, all people would perform equally well". In fact, this assertion ignores instances of economic success achieved despite vigorous negative discrimination. There are many examples of poor, migrant minorities, who, despite transplantation into alien, discriminating environments, succeeded in out-performing the indigenous population and so incurred envy, resentment, and worse. What remains inescapably evident is that people differ in their ability to utilise opportunities presented by a free market system. Defensively, under-performing groups therefore invest energy in securing state interference to change market outcomes in their favour, and demonise the free market system as inherently unjust. In fact, it can be shown that the only economic arrangement compatible with the equality of all individuals and groups before the law is the free market. Globalisation facilitates the spread of this free market system. It should, therefore, be welcomed as the path to greater economic prosperity and greater equality before the law for everyone.
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Lamy, Pierre. "Les défis de la globalisation financière." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995IEPP0007.
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L'analyse qui est développée vise à montrer que le processus de globalisation financière qui est aujourd'hui en oeuvre est porteur de remises en cause tout à fait fondamentales dans l'organisation et la conduite des activités sur les marches de capitaux. En augmentant la concurrence entre acteurs financiers - voire même en l'introduisant là ou elle était jusqu'alors inconnue - la globalisation des activités financières bouleverse les équilibres et remet en cause les situations acquises. Le résultat attendu est une efficacité accrue des marches financiers, au profit des autres catégories d'agents économiquesThe objective of the analysis is to show that the actual process of globalization of financial markets generates fundamental changes in the organization of financial markets and the way in which these activities are conducted. By increasing competition between financial players - and even by introducing it where formerly it didn't exist - globalization of financial markets activities destabilises firmly established situations. The expected result is an increased efficiency in the financial markets, to the benefit of non-financial economic agents
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Chareyre, de Beaumont Anne. "Droit de la concurrence et globalisation." Paris 2, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA020016.
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La loi du marché, tenue pour le meilleur arbitre du fonctionnement de l'économie, n'est plus guère contestée. La politique de la concurrence, qui assure le bon fonctionnement de l'économie, a acquis un rôle majeur dans la plupart des pays développés et, de fil en aiguille, dans les pays émergents. La concurrence semble désormais servir de règle de conduite indispensable de la nouvelle économie-monde. Pourtant, un état des lieux précis des législations existantes montrera que les systèmes en vigueur interprètent chacun la concurrence de manière différente, l'affirmation de la concurrence pouvant cacher la défense des positions acquises dans l'ordre interne comme vis-à-vis de l'extérieur. La globalisation rend la réalité encore plus complexe. Les droits de la concurrence nationaux peuvent ainsi être utilisés à l'encontre de pratiques mises en œuvre à l'étranger, afin de protéger le marché interne. L'inclusion au sein de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce d'un groupe de travail en charge de la concurrence atteste que l'essor du commerce international implique nécessairement celui de la concurrence. Un bilan doit donc être dressé. Montrer comment la législation de la concurrence est interprétée dans la diversité des États de droit et comment, paradoxalement, la variété des systèmes, des objectifs et des intérêts peut faire éclater une contradiction implicite entre droit efficient du marché global et mondialisation de l'économie, justifiant l'adoption de règles du jeu de la concurrence multilatérales. Cette dernière est non seulement possible, mais elle est surtout nécessaire. L'analyse des travaux entrepris en ce sens jusqu'à présent démontrera enfin qu'elle est faisable.
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Sidhu, Ravinder K. "Selling futures : globalisation and international education /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16685.pdf.
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Rybanová, Soňa. "Relation between Globalisation and the Real Convergence: Does convergence of globalisation influence convergence of real GDP per capita?" Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-85839.
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This dissertation poses the question of whether there is a relationship between the speed of convergence of globalisation and the speed of convergence of GDP per capita. Firstly, the concepts of globalisation and real convergence and their relationship are thoroughly explained from both the theoretical and empirical point of view. And secondly, the answer to the question comes in the form of beta and sigma convergence analysis of this relationship. Thirdly, the analysis splits the countries into two groups (developed and developing countries) and finds interesting but ambiguous results in their comparison. Finally, in order to correctly interpret the results of absolute and conditional beta and sigma convergence, their theoretical and empirical overview is discussed in depth. The dissertation concludes by providing some answers to the initial question for every particular analysis. Namely, it shows that this relationship is indeed very ambiguous.
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Ngenkaew, Wachuree. "Thai youth, globalisation and English language learning /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18360.pdf.
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Fomosoh, Raymond Awa. "Globalisation and work regulation in South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2009. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_8106_1310982701.
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This research paper examines the different forms of employment patterns that have emerged as a result of globalisation as well as the mechanisms that have been used by the legislator to accommodate those in non-standard employment relationships.
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Aiginger, Karl, and Heinz Handler. "Europe taking the lead in responsible globalisation." Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 2017. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6132/1/Aiginger_etal_2017_E_Europe%2Dtaking.pdf.
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Political opposition to globalisation has risen in industrialized countries, although the positive overall effects on the growth of the world economy and the alleviation of poverty are empirically verifiable. However, the effects of globalisation vary according to regions, professional groups, and education. In the period of intensive globalisation, unemployment and inequality have risen, and people feel their lives to be determined by forces they cannot influence. Since the many new challenges, such as climate protection, can be better solved by worldwide efforts, it is indispensable to avoid new national barriers and to strengthen the endorsement of globalisation and the concomitant welfare effects. However, it is also necessary to respect cultural differences in preferences and to view globalisation as a search and learning process. Instruments for the implementation of such a strategy may vary according to regional specifics. Social and ecological goals - gaining higher importance with rising per capita incomes - are well-represented in the European model, but for worldwide solutions other socio-economic models will offer preferences and solutions. Apart from the announced partial withdrawal of the United States from globalisation and the upcoming dominance of China in world affairs and large scale investment, Europe would be well-advised to take a greater responsibility if not the lead in determining the rules of globalisation. Based on an opinion-forming process within Europe, responsible globalisation can significantly improve the quality of life in Europe and its partners worldwide.
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Milton-Smith, Melissa. "A conversation on globalisation and digital art." University of Western Australia. Communication Studies Discipline Group, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0057.
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Globalisation is one of the most important cultural phenomena of our times and yet, one of the least understood. In popular and critical discourse there has been a struggle to articulate its human affects. The tendency to focus upon macro accounts can leave gaps in our understanding of its micro experiences.1 1 As Jonathon Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo argue there is a strong pattern of thinking about globalisation 'principally in terms of very large-scale economic, political, or cultural processes'. (See: Jonathon Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo (Eds.), The Anthropology of Globalisation: A Reader, Malden, Blackwell Publishing, 2002, p. 5.) In this thesis, I will describe globalisation as a dynamic matrix of flows. I will argue that globalisation's spatial, temporal, and kinetic re-arrangements have particular impacts upon bodies and consciousnesses, creating contingent and often unquantifiable flows. I will introduce digital art as a unique platform of articulation: a style borne of globalisation's oeuvre, and technically well-equipped to converse with and emulate its affects. By exploring digital art through an historical lens I aim to show how it continues dialogues established by earlier art forms. I will claim that digital art has the capacity to re-centre globalisation around the individual, through sensory and experiential forms that encourage subjective and affective encounters. By approaching it in this way, I will move away from universal theorems in favour of particular accounts. Through exploring a wide array of digital artworks, I will discuss how digital art can capture fleeting experiences and individual expressions. I will closely examine its unique tools of articulation to include: immersive, interactive, haptic, and responsive technologies, and analyse the theories and ideas that they converse with. Through this iterative process, I aim to explore how digital art can both facilitate and generate new articulations of globalisation, as an experiential phenomenon.
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Borghoff, Thomas. "Evolutionary theory of the globalisation of firms." Wiesbaden Gabler, 2004. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2649426&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Psarrou, Eleni. "National identity in the era of globalisation." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2003. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2507/.
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The project National Identity in the Era of Globalisation is a research on the nature of national identity and its potentials in the era of globalisation. National identity is approached by psychoanalysis and by political analysis. Psychoanalysis offers us some insight on identity and the process of identification, a process that shapes the individual personality-and identities-since birth. Identification is essential for understanding how people identify themselves and how they are mobilised by other people, groups etc. It also reveals the role of the others (outgroups, foreigners, etc.), who are also important to the extent that they act as reference points of identification, including negative identification; to a large extent their presence is essential for the coherence of the national group as the nation's aggressiveness is directed outwards, acting as a stabiliser for the cohesion of the group. National identity occurs out of identification with the national group, so its peculiar characteristics are defined by the nation. Nationalism inevitably comes to the fore, not only as the force that has forged the nation-state, but also as a mass mobilising ideology that determines the aspirations of the 'nationals'. As it will be argued in this thesis, nationalism changes national identities to 'nationalistic identities', and signifies the nation with new characteristics. Most significantly, nationalism appeals strongly to the human unconscious, and accounts for the seemingly 'irrational' characteristics of national identity. Thus, national identity partly derives its strength, prevalence and ferocity from nationalism. What are the prospects, then, of national identity in the era of globalization. In order to answer this, we must define globalisation and examine the position and strength of the national state in the current globalising era. Also, the prevalence of nationalism as a political force and ideology that signifies the nation and national identity to a large extent must be explored in the era of globalisation. As globalisation seems to provoke national awakenings and enhance existing nationalisms, the potentials for national identities to be strengthened or rendered obsolete will be examined.
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Iacovone, Leonardo. "Essays on Firm-Level Responses to Globalisation." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517025.
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This thesis analyses how Mexican firms responded to the challenges and opportunities of globalisation generated by the NAFTA reforms during the 19908. Using a unique firmlevel dataset that covers 85 percent of Mexican industrial output, and relying on recent advances in trade theory modeling of heterogenous firms, we examine firm-level responses to these reforms from different perspectives. After having described this dataset, in the first essay, we study the relationship between trade reforms and productivity and, relying on an innovative methodology to capture the overall impact of NAFTA, we show that NAFTA affected firms differently depending on their different "integration status". Building on the previous findings, in the second essay we develop a Schumpeterian growth model predicting that the impact of liberalisation on economic performance is asymmetric. We then test its prediction and confirm that firms that are further away from the "productive technological frontier" are less positively affected by the liberalisation. As NAFTA not only increased domestic competitive pressures but also expanded export opportunities, in the final two essays we concentrate on the behaviour of exporters. Our main findings show that plants that will export a particular product variety in the future experience an increase in the domestic unit value obtained for this variety two years before exporting starts, and this is accompanied by an increase in investment activity. Further, our stylised facts confirm that exporting is a relatively rare activity and document a significant degree of churning at the product level that takes place in response to declining trade costs. We also find evidence suggesting that firms' decisions to expand and drop products are influenced by what appear to be their "core competencies". Finally, we uncover that new exporters tend to "start small", and start exporting by introducing into foreign markets those products that they are already selling at home.
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Ragoobur, Satiumsingh. "Trade unions in an era of globalisation." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2004. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11381/.
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The objectives of this thesis are twofold. First, to investigate the link between foreign competition and the decline of unionisation in Britain during the 1980s and early 1990s. Second, to examine the impact of international trade on the wage bargaining strength of trade unions as measured by the union wage gap of individual workers. The study focuses primarily on the manufacturing sector given that it has suffered the heaviest decline in unionisation and is the most tradable and open sector of the UK economy. An important aspect of the thesis is the data used. The empirical analyses are carried out using labour market information from large individual and firm level surveys such as the New Earnings Survey Panel Dataset and the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey matched with industry trade data compiled from the OECD's International Trade by Commodities Statistics. The results demonstrate that foreign competition had, at most, a weak impact on the extent of unionisation in UK manufacturing. It seems more likely that the anti-union policy pursued by Thatcher's Conservative Government restricted the exercise of union power whilst providing employers with the opportunity to reaffirm their prerogatives and marginalize the union movement. On the other hand, we do find that increased openness to international trade served to moderate union wage demands during the 1980s. Although, it would appear that the disciplining effect of foreign competition diminished over time as the union mark up was not adversely affected towards the mid-1990s.
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Trystan, Dafydd. "The Welsh political economy : globalisation in question." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396096.
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Anderson, Edward William John. "Globalisation and wage inequalities, past and present." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390914.
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Luckhurst, Jonathan. "Problematising New Labour's discourse on 'economic globalisation'." Thesis, University of Essex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.435587.
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Bendall, Jeremy Christopher. "In our power : the civilisation of globalisation." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/639774d6-6a7a-4161-9267-fc0362ad6392.
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Bernard, François de. "Le partage des mondes : globalisation et mondialisations." Paris 8, 2004. http://www.bibliotheque-numerique-paris8.fr/fre/ref/167974/180380060/.
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Tantsiura, Anna Vasylivna. "The impact of globalisation on world economy." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2019. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13170.
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Matar, Rana. "La globalisation du processus du blanchiment d'argent." Aix-Marseille 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004AIX32071.
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La présente recherche s'inscrit dans le cadre de l'analyse du processus de blanchiment. Il semble entré dans une nouvelle période caractérisé par sa généralisation, laquelle témoigne de son intégration par le système économique et financier global. En fait, les mécanismes constitutifs de la mondialisation financière ont pu, par leur nature même, faciliter la pénétration dans le système financier et la circulation internationale des capitaux. En effet, le problème de l'argent sale est un fait majeur de notre fin de siècle et un défi pour tous les acteurs politiques et économiques du monde de affaires, désormais inscrit dans la mondialisation. Face à l'internationalisation de pratiques de blanchiment, la réponse ne peut qu'être de plus en plus internationale, voire supranationale. Elle nécessite inévitablement de nouveaux progrès dans la coopération internationale, tout particulièrement en Europe. Cette coopération ne se fait qu'en réduisant les obstacles qui subsistent dans les législations nationales et leur incidence sur l'entraide judiciaire. L'efficacité de la lutte contre le blanchiment d'argent dépend aussi de la création d'un système cohérent de contre-mesures. Un nouvel ordre économique international devra être progressivement réinventé, qui comblera les lacunes dans l'organisation existante et qui mettra en œuvre une régulation financière et monétaire internationale. Or, le Fonds monétaire international, la Banque mondiale, le GAFI et d'autres organes de normalisation préparent une méthodologie commune d'évaluation globale en vue de l'établissement d'une norme internationale pour la lutte contre le blanchiment d'argentThe following study joins the framework of the analysis of the money laundering process. That process seems headed to a new era as it has expanded unto the global financial markets. In fact, the constituent mechanisms of worldwide financial markets were abele to, by their own nature, facilitate the entry of laundered capital into international circulation. The problem of “dirty” money is a major issue and concern of our time and a challenge to economic and political figures in the global business world. Due to the internationalisation of money laundering practices, the problem must be dealt with on an international stage, if not on a supranational one. Indeed, new efforts are necessary for worldwide cooperation, particularly in Europe. This cooperation is only possible by reducing obstacles found in national legislations and their impact on judicial collaboration among nations. An efficient fight against money laundering depends on the creation of a coherent system of counter measures. A new international economic order must be progressively reinvented; it would fill the void present in the existing one and replace it with an internationally recognized set of financial and monetary regulations. In light of the importance of the problem, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering and other organizations are preparing a common global evaluation method to help establish international standards for the fight against money laundering
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Silpasart, Chayanoot. "Contemporary Thai art : globalisation and cultural identity." Thesis, University of Essex, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.617061.
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The drastic changes in Thai life since the 1980s, led by the impact of globalisation and economic growth, has made the Thai people to become more aware of the concepts of nationhood and cultural/national identity or "Thai-ness", especially through the form of cultural activities including visual art. The fear of losing national identity has led to the revival of traditional art, namely "neo-traditional Thai Art". This style is strongly supported by the government and is regarded as the mainstream of the Thai art scene since it has been the most effective catalyst for arousing patriotism and creating a sense of Thai unity. - Thai-centrism is promoted by artists and art instructors as a necessary means to distinguish national characteristics from the influence of Western art styles. Consequently, modern and contemporary Thai art is geared toward the conservative value of national identity. The assumption is that such art should reflect characteristics that are uniquely Thai. Yet, globalisation also gives some Thai artists, who are the subject of this thesis, confidence as the new internationalism opens up a wide range of opportunities. This thesis presents the work of distinctive avantgarde/ contemporary Thai artists, particularly Montien Boonma, Manit . Sriwanichpoom, Michael Shoawanasai, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Navin Rawanchaikul. They struggle against the dominance of traditional styles and the professional hierarchy, yet are challenged to make distinctive contributions to contemporary Thai art. Thai-ness is defined and redefined in many contemporary contexts, despite the government's favouring neo-traditional art. While neo-traditional Thai art is favoured at home, neo-traditional artists have not really succeeded on the international art scene, even though they have exhibited in major museums around Asia. On . the other hand, avantgarde/ contemporary Thai artists, who always struggle to survive at home, have been selected by foreign curators, who had • developed an appreciation for cutting-edge/ experimental Thai artistic expression to participate in many prestigious international platforms.
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Aasmundsen, Hans Geir. "Pentecostalism, Globalisation and Society in Contemporary Argentina." Doctoral thesis, Södertörns högskola, Religionsvetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-20691.
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In Argentina, Pentecostalism had a breakthrough in the early 1980s, and today more than 10 per cent of the population are Pentecostals. The revival coincided with a socio-political transformation of Argentinean society. After half a century of dictatorships and Peronism, democracy was restored, and structural changes paved the way for a certain “autonomisation” of politics, law, economy, science and religion. The "new" form of society that developed resembles what in this study is called a Western model, which to a large degree is currently being diffused on a global scale. This work examines the new religious sphere and how Pentecostals relate to society at large, and the political and judicial sphere in particular. Social systems theory and an idea of communication as constitutive of social spheres, such as religious, political and judicial ones, form the theoretical foundation for the study. Methods that have been used are fieldwork, interviews and analyses of written material. It is concluded that evangelisation and transformation are of major concern to Pentecostals in contemporary Argentina and that this follows a global trend. Evangelisation has always been important to, even a hallmark of, Pentecostalism. What has become as important is the urge for transformation, of the individual, the family and society. This leads to increased socio-political engagement. However, Pentecostals do not have a “fixed” idea of how society should be organised, i.e., they do not yet have a full-fledged political theology, a public theology or what could be called a Pentecostal ideology. This is mainly because they experience a lack of “compatibility” between the Pentecostal and the political communication. Their approaches to socio-political concerns seem to be based on an understanding of certain “values” as the fundamental building block of society.
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Viandaz, Magali-Lina. "Immigration comparée dans un contexte de globalisation." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010MON30028/document.
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A travers la comparaison des politiques migratoires de travail en France et en Suisse, il s'agit de savoir de quelle manière ces deux pays arrivent-ils à un compromis entre un libéralisme tendant à davantage d'échange et un système de droit visant à réduire cette ouverture ? Cette étude comparative porte sur les politiques d'immigration en France et en Suisse depuis la Seconde Guerre Mondiale jusqu'aux dernières lois. En repartant des raisons d'émigration des travailleurs migrants, il s'agit de s'intéresser au traitement de l'immigration et de la main-d'œuvre étrangère par les sociétés d'accueil à travers les permis de travail, les cartes de séjour et de façon plus générale "la catégorisation" des étrangers. L'évolution des caractéristiques des travailleurs migrants est également analysée afin de distinguer les différentes "générations" de travailleurs venus, ainsi que leurs insertions dans le monde du travail. La question de l'intégration est posée grâce à un certain nombre d'indicateurs concernant les travailleurs et leurs familles : la scolarisation des enfants, le logement, les droits sociaux et civiques; mais également à travers l'analyse de l'Etat-Nation. Enfin, l'impact de la communautarisation des politiques migratoires est développé afin d'exposer les possibilités pour chaque pays de définir les personnes autorisées à venir sur leurs territoires dans un contexte de globalisation, en fonction de leurs besoins respectifsBy comparing the labour migration policies in France and Switzerland, the question is how these two countries arrive at a compromise between a liberalism towards more exchange and a legal system aiming at reducing this opening. This comparative study covers the immigration policies in France and Switzerland since World War II up to the latest laws. By starting with the reasons for emigration of migrant workers we must interest ourselves in the dealings with immigration of foreign labour in the host societies through the work permit, resident permit and more generally speaking the "categorisation" of foreigners. The evolution of the characteristics of the migrant workers is also analysed in order to distinguish bettween the different "generations" of migrant workers as well as their integration into the world of work. The issue of integration is treated through a certain number of indicators regarding the workers ans their families : schooling of children, accomodation, social and civic rights; but also through the analysis of the Host Country. Finally, the impact of the communitarisation of the migratory policies is developed in order to display the possibilities for each country to define the persons authorised to enter their territories in a context of globalisation, according to their respective needs
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Renard, Cécile. "Architecture, globalisation, métropolisation : le processus de globalisation à travers le paysage architectural : lectures croisées de Barcelone, Berlin et Rome." Paris 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA010680.
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Depuis la fin du XXe siècle, la production architecturale, entre signe et fonction, constitue une ressource privilégiée pour les acteurs locaux, tant publics que privés, en quête d'image pour la promotion de leurs territoires. Le constat d'une instrumentation de l'architecture «signée» et légitimée à l'échelle internationale marque l'entrée de l'architecture dans l'économie compétitive et le système global. L'approche de la globalisation à travers la conception architecturale et urbaine semble trouver ses limites dans une lecture résultative mais elle paraît pertinente si on l'analyse en tant que processus. Nous faisons l'hypothèse de vecteurs de «worlding » (processus), qui permettent de propulser les territoires sur l'archipel mondial. Au premier plan de ces vecteurs l'architecture se présente comme un des fondements des trajectoires globales. Plus spécifiquement, dans le cas de villes européennes fortement patrimonialisées telles que Barcelone, Berlin et Rome, nous observons le rapport dialogique entre patrimoine et création contemporaine produisant de la valeur et renforçant le « capital symbolique », L'architecture comme vecteur de worlding européen est interrogée à travers les stratégies d'acteurs et au regard des ambitions métropolitaines particulières mises en tension avec le cadre patrimonial. De plus, l'approche doit être confrontée, d'une part, aux lectures qui opposent local et global, ou site et archipel mondial, et, d'autre part, à celles qui font l'analyse d'un syncrétisme des deux échelles.
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Alkhatib, Nader Zayed. "The Impact of Globalisation on Human Rights in the Arab World." Thesis, Griffith University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365241.
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This thesis examines whether globalisation has any effect on a state’s respect for human rights. Using the Arab world as a sample, this thesis has nominated three components of globalisation that might influence an Arab government’s level of respect for security rights and its ability to provide for subsistence rights: economic, political, and social globalisation. Each of these components among other local and international factors can be theoretically related to human rights. Thus, the thesis employed a mixed multimethod approach that combines qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis
techniques in sequential phases; the first stage established hypothesised relationships between constructs to be tested statistically for significance, the findings of stage one guided the execution of stage two, which involved thorough investigation of four case studies.
Using pooled, cross-sectional time-series analysis to empirically test the hypothesised relationships between globalisation and basic human rights in the Arab world from 1976 to 2011, the findings were mixed. Among the three indicators used to represent level of economic globalisation in a country, participation in Bretton Woods institutions positively increases a state’s level of respect for security rights, but deteriorates its ability to provide for basic needs. The other two indicators, foreign direct investment
and trade openness proved to have no influence on both types of rights. As for political globalisation, the statistical analysis indicates that participation in international human rights treaties does not guarantee observance of security rights in a country but has a substantive and strong positive impact on subsistence rights. Social globalisation represented by the use of the internet in a country exhibits no significant impact on both dependent variables. Furthermore, the quantitative analysis concludes that while the level of economic development has a great positive impact on both types of rights, the
positive relationship between democracy and human rights as concluded by the majority of research on human rights, does not find any support in the Arab world.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Humanities
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Grosjean, Nicolas. "Globalisation et autonomie des systèmes de production territoriaux /." Neuchâtel : Institut de recherches économiques et régionales, 2002. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00111722.pdf.
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Olivier, Daniel. "The globalisation of port business an Asian perspective /." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36265007.
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Seidel, Tobias. "The Impact of Globalisation with Rigid Labour Markets." Diss., lmu, 2007. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-72936.
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Lan, Yi-chen 1969, University of Western Sydney, of Science Technology and Environment College, and School of Computing and Information Technology. "Management of information technology issues in enterprise globalisation." THESIS_CSTE_CIT_Lan_Y.xml, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/314.
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Domestic companies are increasingly trying to expand to become globalised firms or multinational corporations (MNCs). Existing business strategies, visions and information systems need to be re-analysed and perhaps reconstructed to fulfil the business goals, operations and characteristics of the global organisation. Information technology is a critical element in enabling globalisation, and enterprises need to identify and consider information technology and system management issues. Depending on the structure of multinational organisations, different emphases need to be placed on issues such as business information systems management, information technology management, people management, end-user management, and culture. A global transition issue priority model is constructed to support the following hypothesis: the global transition issue priority varies depending on the type of organisational structure. With the assistance of this model, MNCs are able to pinpoint the emphasis of issues in preparing the globalisation process according to their organisational structures. Surevsy were onducted to investigate the priority of issues, and outcomes suggest that the emphasis of each issue class is dependent on the type of organisational structure. The main contribution of this research is to develop a global information systems management priority model that will assist MNCs in preparing the strategic plan in the global transition process, and develop a global transition framework for enterprises which will facilitate construction of their global information systems.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)