Author
Peter Dicken

Pub Date: 11/2010
Pages: 632

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Peter Dicken

About the Book

A magnificent achievement … an essential companion for anyone concerned to understand the rapid geographical shifts occurring in the world’s economic power relations in these stressful and troubled times.’
David Harvey, CUNY Graduate Center, New York

 

Global Shift, sixth edition, continues to deconstruct globalization to show that distance (economic geography) still matters, Dicken uses insights from international business research to demonstrate that world business activity is more regional than global. Multinational enterprises are at the hub of global production networks and service delivery; they interact with governments and generally act as agents of economic development. In short economic geography and international business are closely aligned in their approach to globalization.
Alan Rugman, Henley Business School, University of Reading

 

A masterful new edition of a masterful text. Once again, Peter Dicken is at the cutting edge of the analysis of economic globalization and global trends. Global Shift is the authoritative text on these issues.
David Held, Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE

 

This sixth edition of Global Shift has been completely revised and updated using the latest available sources. Each chapter has been extensively rewritten, and new chapters introduced, to take account of recent empirical developments, new ideas on production, distribution, and consumption in the global economy and the implications of the global financial crisis.

The now standard work on economic globalization provides:

  • the most comprehensive and up-to-date explanation of economic globalization available, examining the role of transnational corporations, states, labour, consumers, and organisations in civil society and the power relations between them
  • a clear guide to how the global economy is being transformed through the operation of global production networks involving transnational corporations, states and interest groups and technology
  • detailed  discussion of different theories of economic globalization
  • a new chapter on the environmental impacts of globalizing processes
  • extended discussion of problems and institutions of global governance in the context of the global economic crisis and of the role of corporate social responsibility
  • broadened sectoral case studies including a new case study on resource-extractive industries, and an extended chapter on financial and advanced business services

The extensive use of graphics, lack of jargon and clear definition of terms, makes Global Shift the key resource on economic globalization in the social science literature.