Globalization - Education and Management Agendas

Edited by Hector Cuadra-Montiel, ISBN 978-953-51-0702-6, 352 pages, Publisher: InTech, Chapters published August 17, 2012 under CC BY 3.0 license
DOI: 10.5772/3256
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The book Globalization - Education and Management Agendas takes the ambitious undertaking of presenting multidimensional approaches to those global issues. It consists of 13 chapters divided into three sections: Globalization and Education, Globalization and Management, Globalization and the Firm. Its authors embody a global research culture. One that is plural, growing and dynamic, as it is evidenced in their respective agendas and methodological approaches. The value of this book lies in its diversity, and its merit will be appreciated by a global community of scholars.

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• Chapter 1  Internationalization and Globalization in Higher Educationby Douglas E. Mitchell and Selin Yildiz Nielsen
• Chapter 2  Higher Educational Reform Values and the Dilemmas of Change: Challenging Secular Neo-Liberalismby James Campbell
• Chapter 3  "Red Light" in Chile: Parents Participating as Consumers of Education Under Global Neoliberal Policiesby Verónica López, Romina Madrid and Vicente Sisto
• Chapter 4  Promoting Social Capital, Empowerment and Counter-Stereotypical Behavior in Male and Female Students in Online CSCL Communutiesby Donata Francescato, Minou E. Mebane, Manuela Tomai, Maura Benedetti and Veronica Rosa
• Chapter 5  From Prescribed to Narrative Curriculum - An Attempt to Understand Educational Change in Portugalby Elsa Estrela
• Chapter 6  Acting in a Globalized World: Marketing Perspectiveby Gabriel Awuah
• Chapter 7  The Rise of Transportation and Logistics in Europe 1950 - 2000by Richard Vahrenkamp
• Chapter 8  Human Resource Management and Performance: From Practices Towards Sustainable Competitive Advantageby Asta Savaneviciene and Zivile Stankeviciute
• Chapter 9  The Context of Globalization and Human Resource Need and Strategy for Developing Countries - The Case of African Countriesby Philemon Kazimil Mzee
• Chapter 10  Global Standards for Supply Chain Management in Consumer Packaged Goods Industryby Virgil Popa
• Chapter 11  The Company's Logistic Activity in the Conditions of Current Globalisationby Ioan-Constantin Dima, Mariana Man and Ştefan Vlăduţescu
• Chapter 12  Strategic Dimensions of the SME System in Romania in the Context of the European Strategic Frameworkby Delia Mioara Popescu, Constanta Popescu, Ana Lucia Ristea and Daniel Dumitru Stan
• Chapter 13  The Impact of Globalization on Cross-Cultural Communicationby Lowell C. Matthews and Bharat Thakkar