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This book is the first in a new series designed to facilitate an emergent dialogue around the issues of global change and cooperative potential. Written by an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, it explores how organizational scholarship and thinking can lead to a greater understanding of global issues. Topics discussed include: global women leaders; corporations as agents of global change; international networking; the development of global environmental regimes and collaborative knowledge creation.
Transnational and International Social Movements in a Globalizing World: Creating Culture, Creating Conflict
Transnational and International Social Movements in a Globalizing World: Creating Culture, Creating Conflict
The idea of cooperation across national boundaries to achieve desirable social goals has intuitive appeal. We live in an era of increasing global interaction marked by lower costs of transportation; increased international trade; the rise of multinational corporations; the emergence of international nongovernmental organizations mobilizing resources and people to effect positive social change; and, facilitated by both the mass media and electronic means of communication, an increased awareness of what is occurring around the world and an increased ability to communicate with people in distant places. Cooperation across national boundaries to alleviate hunger and starvation, to contain and eliminate ...
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