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Chapter 1 - Introduction: Questioning 'Globalization'

Chapter 2 - Global Shift: Changing Geographies of the Global Economy

Chapter 3 - Tangled Webs: Unravelling Complexity in the Global Economy

Chapter 4 - Technological Change: 'Gales of Creative Destruction'

Chapter 5 - Transnational Corporations: The Primary 'Movers and Shapers' of
                  the Global Economy

Chapter 6 - The State Really Does Matter

Chapter 7 - The Uneasy Relationship between TNCs and States: Dynamics of Conflict
                  and Collaboration

Chapter 8 - 'Making Holes in the Ground': The Extractive Industries

Chapter 9 - 'We Are What We Eat': The Agro-Food Industries

Chapter 10 - 'Fabric-ating Fashion': The Clothing Industries

Chapter 11 - 'Wheels of Change': The Automobile Industry

Chapter 12 - 'Making the World Go Round': Advanced Business
                   Services – Especially Finance

Chapter 13 - 'Making the Connections, Moving the Goods': Logistics
                   and Distribution Services

Chapter 14 - 'Capturing Value' within Global Production Networks

Chapter 15 - 'Destroying Value': Environmental Impacts of Global Production Networks

Chapter 16 - Winning and Losing: Where You Live Really Matters

Chapter 17 - Making the World a Better Place

Chapter One
Introduction: Questioning 'Globalization'

Bello, W. (2003) Global capitalism versus global community.
Race & Class, 44(4): 63-76.

Dirlik, A. (2003) Global modernity?: Modernity in an age of global capitalism.
European Journal of Social Theory, 6(3): 275-92.

Featherstone, M. (2006) Genealogies of the global.
Theory, Culture & Society, 23(2-3): 387-92.

Hargittai, E. and Centeno, M.A. (2001) Defining a global geography.
American Behavioral Scientist, 44(10): 1545-60.

Hirst, P. and Thompson, G. (2002) The future of globalization.
Cooperation and Conflict, 37(3): 247-65.

Inglis, D. (2010) Civilizations or globalization(s): Intellectual rapprochements and historical world visions.
European Journal of Social Theory, 13(1): 135-52.

Nederveen Pieterse, J. (2000) Globalization North and South: Representations of uneven development and the interaction of modernities.
Theory, Culture & Society, 17(1): 129-37.

Dicken, (2004) Global shift: industrial change in a turbulent world.
Progress in Human Geography, 28(4): 507-15.

Robertson, R. (1990) Mapping the global condition: Globalization as the central concept. Theory, Culture & Society, 7(2): 15-30.

Van Der Bly, M.C.E. (2005) Globalization: A triumph of ambiguity.
Current Sociology, 53(6): 875-93.

Chapter Two
Global Shift: Changing Geographies of the Global Economy

Hope, W. (2006) Global capitalism and the critique of real time.
Time & Society, 15(2-3): 275-302.

Kiely, R. (1998) Globalization, post-Fordism and the contemporary context of development.
International Sociology, 13(1): 95-115.

Leyshon, A. and Thrift, N. (2007) The capitalization of almost everything: The future of finance and capitalism.
Theory, Culture & Society, 24(7-8): 97-115.

Martinelli, A.(2003) Global order or divided world? Introduction.
Current Sociology, 51(2): 95-100.

Porter, M.E. (2000) Location, competition, and economic development: Local clusters in a global economy.
Economic Development Quarterly, 14(1):15-34.

Reuveny, R. and Thompson, W.R. (2007) The limits of economic globalization: Still another North–South cleavage?.
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 48(2-3): 107-35.

Sassen, S. (2000) Territory and territoriality in the global economy.
International Sociology, June 15(2): 372-93.

Shandra, J.M, Ross, R.J.S and London, B. (2003) Global capitalism and the flow of foreign direct investment to non-core nations, 1980-1996: A quantitative, cross-national analysis.
International Journal of Comparative Sociology,44(3): 199-238.

Urry, J. (2005) The complexities of the global. Theory, Culture & Society, 22(5): 235-54. Zook, M.A. (2001) Old hierarchies or new networks of centrality?: The global geography of the internet content market.
American Behavioral Scientist, 44(10): 1679-96.

Chapter Three
Tangled Webs: Unravelling Complexity in the Global Economy

Brooks, S.G (1999) The globalization of production and the changing benefits of conquest.
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 43(5): 646-70.

Crotty, J. (2000) Structural contradictions of the global neoliberal regime.
Review of Radical Political Economics, 32(3): 361-68.

Drori, G.S. (2007) Information society as a global policy agenda: Wha-t does it tell us about the age of globalization?.
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 48(4): 297-316.

Entrena-Durán, F. (2009) Understanding social structure in the context of global uncertainties.
Critical Sociology, 35(4): 521-40.

Gould, K.A., Pellow, D.N and Schnaiberg, A. (2004) Interrogating the treadmill of production: Everything you wanted to know about the treadmill but were afraid to ask.
Organization & Environment, 17(3): 296-316.

Guerrieri, G. and Pietrobelli, C. (2006) Old and new forms of clustering and production networks in changing technological regimes: Contrasting evidence from Taiwan and Italy.
Science Technology & Society, 11(1): 9-38.

Loyka, J.J. and Powers, T.L. (2003) A model of factors that influence global product standardization.
Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 10(2): 64-72.

Porter, M.E. (2000) Location, competition, and economic development: Local clusters in a global economy.
Economic Development Quarterly, 14(1): 15-34.

Trentmann, F. (2009) Crossing divides: Consumption and globalization in history.
Journal of Consumer Culture, 9(2): 187-220.

Chapter Four
Technological Change: 'Gales of Creative Destruction'

Abouzeedan, A. and Busler, M. (2006) Information technology (IT) and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) management: The concept of ‘firm impact sphere’,
Global Business Review, 7(2): 243-57.

Alzouma, G. (2005) Myths of digital technology in Africa: Leapfrogging development?’.
Global Media and Communication, 1(3): 339-56.

Dyb, K. and Halford, S. (2009) Placing globalized technologies: Telemedicine and the making of difference.
Sociology, 43(2): 232-49.

Hwang, K. (2008) International collaboration in multi-layered centre-periphery in the globalization of science and technology.
Science, Technology and Human Values, 33(1): 101-33.

Matsumoto, M. (2005) The uncertain but crucial relationship between a ‘new energy’ technology and global environmental problems: The complex case of the ‘sunshine’ project.
Social Studies of Science, 35(4): 623-51.

Oinas, P. and Malecki, E.J. (2002) The evolution of technologies in time and space: From national and regional to spatial innovation systems.
International Regional Science Review, 25(1): 102-31.

Schott, T. (2001) Global webs of knowledge: Education, science, and technology.
American Behavioral Scientist, 44(10): 1740-51.

Schroeder, R. (2008) e-sciences as research technologies: Reconfiguring disciplines, globalizing knowledge.
Social Science Information, 47(2): 131-57.

Smith, D.A. (1993) Technology and the modern world-system: Some reflections.
Science, Technology & Human Values, 18(2): 186-95.

Sooryamoorthy, R., Paige Miller, B. and Shrum, W. (2008) Untangling the technology cluster: Mobile telephony, internet use and the location of social ties.
New Media & Society, 10(5): 729-49.

Chapter Five
Transnational Corporations: The Primary 'Movers and Shapers' of the Global Economy

Alger, C.F. (1972) The multinational corporation and the future international system.
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 403(1): 104-15.

Alon, I. (2004) Global franchising and development in emerging and transitioning markets.
Journal of Macromarketing, 24(2): 156-67.

Bergesen, A.J. and Sonnett, J. (2001) The global 500: Mapping the world economy at century's end.
American Behavioral Scientist, 44(10): 1602-15.

Brock, D.M. and Siscovick, I.C. (2007) Global integration and local responsiveness in multinational subsidiaries: Some strategy, structure, and human resource contingencies.
Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 45(3): 353-73.

Crotty, J. (2003) The neoliberal paradox: The impact of destructive product market competition and impatient finance on nonfinancial corporations in the neoliberal era.
Review of Radical Political Economics, 35(3): 271-79.

Geppert, M., Matten, D. and Williams, K. (2003) Change management in MNCs: How global convergence intertwines with national diversities.
Human Relations, July 56(7): 807-38.

Gereffi, G. (2001) Shifting governance structures in global commodity chains, with special reference to the internet.
American Behavioral Scientist, 44(10): 1616-37.

Muthu, S. (2008) Adam Smith's critique of international trading companies: Theorizing ‘globalization’ in the age of enlightenment.
Political Theory, 36(2): 185-212.

Owen Thomas, A. (2001) Global media corporations and the nation-state: Balancing politico-economic and socio-cultural globalization.
Global Business Review, 2(1): 71-82.

Neil Wrigley, Neil M. Coe, and Andrew Currah, ‘Globalizing Retail: Conceptualizing the Distribution-Based Transnational Corporation’,
Progress in Human Geography, 2005; vol. 29, 4: pp. 437-57.

Chapter Six
The State Really Does Matter

Bislev, S. (2004) Globalization, state transformation, and public security.
International Political Science Review, 25(3): 281-96.

Breton, A. and Fraschini, A. (2007) Competitive governments, globalization, and equalization grants.
Public Finance Review, 35(4): 463-79.

Held, D. (2000) Regulating globalization? The reinvention of politics.
International Sociology, 15(2): 394-408.

Hope, W. (2009) Conflicting temporalities: State, nation, economy and democracy under global capitalism.
Time & Society, 18(1): 62-85.

Kien, G. (2004) Culture, state, globalization: The articulation of global capitalism.
Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, 4(4): 472-500. Reis, E.P. (2004) The lasting marriage between nation and state despite globalization.
International Political Science Review, 25(3): 251-57.

Smelser, N.J. (2003) Pressures for continuity in the context of globalization.
Current Sociology, 51(2): 101-12.

O'Neill, K. (1998) Out of the backyard: The problems of hazardous waste management at a global level.
Journal of Environment & Development, 7(2): 138-63.

Yeates, N. (2002) Globalization and social policy: From global neoliberal hegemony to global political pluralism.
Global Social Policy, 2(1): 69-91.

Winter, K. (1927) State regulation of corporations by policing sales of securities.
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 129(1): 149-55.

Chapter Seven
The Uneasy Relationship between TNCs and States: Dynamics of Conflict and Collaboration

Bryan, D. (2001) Global accumulation and accounting for national economic identity.
Review of Radical Political Economics, 33(1): 57-77.

Djelic, M.L. (2005) From local legislation to global structuring frame: The story of antitrust. Global Social Policy, 5(1): 55-76.

Fasenfest, D. (2010) Global economy, local calamity.
Critical Sociology, 36(2): 195-200.

Levi-Faur, D. (2005) The global diffusion of regulatory capitalism.
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 598(1): 12-32.

Geppert, M. and Matten, D. (2006) Institutional influences on manufacturing organization in multinational corporations: The ‘cherrypicking’ approach.
Organization Studies, 27(4): 491-515

Macleod, S. and Lewis, D. (2004) Transnational corporations: Power, influence and responsibility.
Global Social Policy, 4(1): 77-98.

Martinelli, A. (2003) Markets, governments, communities and global governance. International Sociology, 18(2): 291-323.

Sklair, L. (2002) The transnational capitalist class and global politics: Deconstructing the corporate-state connection.
International Political Science Review, 23(2): 159-74.

Sovacool, B.K. (2010) Broken by design: The corporation as a failed technology.
Science Technology & Society, 15(1): 1-25.

Vang, J. and Asheim, B. (2006) Regions, absorptive capacity and strategic coupling with H  high-tech TNCs: Lessons from India and China.
Science Technology & Society, 11(1): 39-66.

Chapter Eight
'Making Holes in the Ground': The Extractive Industries

Bräuninger, T. and König, T. (2000) Making rules for governing global commons:
The case of deep-sea mining.
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 44(5): 604-29.

Clark, B. and Bellamy Foster, J. (2009) Ecological imperialism and the global metabolic rift: Unequal exchange and the guano/nitrates trade.
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 50(3-4): 311-34.

Dawley, S., Stenning, A. and Pike, A. (2008) Mapping corporations, connecting communities: Remaking steel geographies in Northern England and Southern Poland.
European Urban and Regional Studies, 15(3): 265-87.

Ellen, B. (2006) Scaling labour: Australian unions and global mining.
Work, Employment & Society, 20(2): 369-87.

Graulau, J. (2008) Is mining good for development?’ The intellectual history of an unsettled question.
Progress in Development Studies, 8(2): 129-62.

Snyder, R. (2006) Does lootable wealth breed disorder? A political economy of extraction framework.
Comparative Political Studies, 39(8): 943-68.

Wise, R.D. and Del Pozo Mendoza, R. (2005) Mexicanization, privatization, and large mining capital in Mexico.
Latin American Perspectives, 32(4): 65-86.

Chapter Nine
'We Are What We Eat': The Agro-Food Industries

Bullion, A. (2003) Globalization, South Asian agriculture and the WTO.
South Asia Economic Journal, 4(1): 1-17.

Bryman, A. (2003) McDonald's as a Disneyized institution: Global implications.
American Behavioral Scientist, 47(2): 154-67.

Charlebois, S. and Labrecque, J. (2009) Sociopolitical foundations of food safety regulation and the governance of global agrifood systems.
Journal of Macromarketing, 29(4): 363-73.

Jarosz, L. (1996) Working in the global food system: A focus for international comparative analysis.
Progress in Human Geography, 20(1): 41-55.

Newman, S.A.(2009) Financialization and changes in the social relations along commodity chains: The case of coffee.
Review of Radical Political Economics, 41(4): 539-59.

Sassatelli, S. and Davolio, F. (2010) Consumption, pleasure and politics: Slow food and the politico-aesthetic problematization of food.
Journal of Consumer Culture, 10(2): 202-32

Starr, A. (2010) Local food: A social movement?.
Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, 20(10): 1-12.

Winickoff, D.E. and Bushey, D.M. (2010) Science and power in global food regulation: The rise of the Codex Alimentarius.
Science, Technology & Human Values, 35(3): 356-81.

Winter, M. (2003) Geographies of food: Agro-food geographies making reconnections.
Progress in Human Geography, 27(4): 505-13

Young, E.M. (2004) Globalization and food security: novel questions in a novel context?.  
Progress in Development Studies, 4(1): 1-21.

Chapter Ten
'Fabric-ating Fashion': The Clothing Industries

Aspers, P. and Skov, L. (2006) Encounters in the global fashion business.
Current Sociology, 54(5): 802-13.

Collins, J. (2002) Mapping a labor market: Gender and skill in the globalizing garment industry.
Gender & Society, 16(6): 921-40.

Collins, J. (2007) The rise of a global garment industry and the reimagination of worker solidarity.
Critique of Anthropology, 27(4): 395-409.

Esbenshade, J. (2008) Going up against the global economy: New developments in the anti-sweatshops movement.
Critical Sociology, 34(3): 453-70.

Hum, T. (2003) Mapping global production in New York city's garment industry: The role of Sunset Park, Brooklyn's immigrant economy.
Economic Development Quarterly, 17(3): 294-309.

Larner, W. and Molloy, M. (2009) Globalization, the `new economy' and working women.
Feminist Theory, 10(1): 35-59.

Miller, D. (2004) Negotiating international framework agreements in the global textile, garment and footwear sector.
Global Social Policy, 4(2): 215-39.

Reimer, S. (2009) Geographies of production II: Fashion, creativity and fragmented labour.
Progress in Human Geography, 33(1): 65-73.

Scott, A.J. (2002) Competitive dynamics of Southern California's clothing industry: The widening global connection and its local ramifications.
Urban Studies, 39(8): 1287-306.

Skov, L. (2006) The role of trade fairs in the global fashion business.
Current Sociology, 54(5): 764-83.

Chapter Eleven
'Wheels of Change': The Automobile Industry

Bordenave, G. and Lung, Y. (1996) New spatial configurations in the European automobile industry.
European Urban and Regional Studies, 3(4): 305-21.

Collings, H.T. (1924) The relation of the automobile industry to international problems of oil and rubber.
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 116(1): 254-58.

Fieleke, N.S. (1982) The automobile industry.
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 460(1): 83-91.

Gartman, D. (2004) Three ages of the automobile: The cultural logics of the car.
Theory, Culture & Society, 21(4-5): 169-95.

Kelly, H.H. (1924) The export trade in automobiles.
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 116(1): 251-54.

Kochan, T.A. and Lansbury, R.D. (1997) Lean production and changing employment relations in the international auto industry.
Economic and Industrial Democracy, 18(4): 597-620.

Orsato, R.J., den Hond, F. and Clegg, S.R. (2002) The political ecology of automobile recycling in Europe.
Organization Studies, 23(4): 639-65.

Raven, C. and Pinch, S. (2003) The British kit car industry: Understanding a ‘world of production.
European Urban and Regional Studies, 10(4): 343-54.

Urry, J. (2004) The ‘system’ of automobility.
Theory, Culture & Society, 21(4-5): 25-39.

Woywode, M. (2002) Global management concepts and local adaptations: Working groups in the French and German car manufacturing industry.
Organization Studies, 23(4): 497-524.

Chapter Twelve
'Making the World Go Round': Advanced Business Services - Especially Finance

Abraham, M. (2008) Globalization and the call center industry.
International Sociology, 23(2): 197-210.

Baskerville, R.F. and Hay, D. (2010) The impact of globalization on professional accounting firms: Evidence from New Zealand.
Accounting History, 15(3): 285-308.

Das, D.K. (2010) Contours of deepening financial globalization in the emerging market economies.
Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies, 2(1): 45-67.

Higgins, W. and Hallström, K.T. (2007) Standardization, globalization and rationalities of government.
Organization, 14(5): 685-704.

Nesvetailova, A. and Palan, R. (2010) The end of liberal finance? The changing paradigm of global financial governance.
Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 38(3): 797-825.

Neu, W.A. and Brown, S.W. (2005) Forming successful business-to-business services in goods-dominant firms.
Journal of Service Research, 8(1): 3-17.

Pollock, N., Williams, R. and D’Adderio, L. (2007) Global software and its provenance: Generification work in the production of organizational software packages.
Social Studies of Science, 37(2): 254-80.

Ramaseshan, B., Bejou,D., Jain, S.C., Mason, C. and Pancras, J. (2006) Issues and perspectives in global customer relationship management.
Journal of Service Research, 9(2): 195-207.

Teubner, G. (2002) Breaking frames: Economic globalization and the emergence of Lex Mercatoria.
European Journal of Social Theory, 5(2): 199-217.

Trimbath, S. (2004) Promoting global financial development: Vive la différence!.
Progress in Development Studies, 4(1): 64-74.

Chapter Thirteen
'Making the Connections, Moving the Goods': Logistics and Distribution Services

Bairoch, P. (2000) The constituent economic principles of globalization in historical perspective: Myths and realities.
International Sociology, 15(2): 197-214.

Ciccantell, P. and Smith, D.A. (2009) Rethinking global commodity chains: Integrating extraction, transport, and manufacturing.
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 50(3-4): 361-84.

Gereffi, G. (2001) Shifting governance structures in global commodity chains, with special reference to the internet.
American Behavioral Scientist, 44(10): 1616-37.

Kasarda, J.D. (1991) Global air cargo-industrial complexes as development tools.
Economic Development Quarterly, 5(3): 187-96.

Paché, G. (2007) Slowness logistics: Towards a new time orientation?
Time & Society, 16(2-3): 311-32.

Sampson, H. and Bloor, M. (2007) When Jack gets out of the box: The problems of regulating a global industry.
Sociology, 41(3): 551-69.

Chapter Fourteen
'Capturing Value' within Global Production Networks

Berndt, C. and Boeckler, M. (2009) Geographies of circulation and exchange: Constructions of markets.
Progress in Human Geography, 33(4): 535-51.

Kiely, R. (2005) Globalization and poverty, and the poverty of globalization theory.
Current Sociology, 53(6): 895-914.

Loser, C.M. (2009) Global financial turmoil and emerging market economies: Major contagion and a shocking loss of wealth?.
Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies, 1(2): 137-58.

McKay, S.C. (2004) Zones of regulation: Restructuring labor control in privatized export zones.
Politics & Society, 32(2): 171-202.

Reimer, S. (2007) Geographies of production: I.
Progress in Human Geography, 31(2): 245-55.

Wolfe, D.A. and Gertler, M.S. (2004) Clusters from the inside and out: Local dynamics and global linkages.
Urban Studies, 41(5-6): 1071-93.

Chapter Fifteen
'Destroying Value': Environmental Impacts of Global Production Networks

Braun, B. (2006) Environmental issues: Global natures in the space of assemblage.
Progress in Human Geography, 30(5): 644-54.

Curtis, F. (2007) Climate change, peak oil, and globalization: Contradictions of natural capital.
Review of Radical Political Economics, 39(3): 385-90.

Dauvergne, P. and Lister, J. (2010) The power of big box retail in global environmental governance: Bringing commodity chains back into IR.
Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 39(1): 145-60.

George, C. (2007) Sustainable development and global governance.
The Journal of Environment & Development, 16(1): 102-25.

Holt-Giménez, E. and Shattuck, A. (2009) The agrofuels transition: Restructuring places and spaces in the global food system.
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 29(3): 180-88.

Joost Kessler, J., Rood, J., Tekelenburg, T. and Bakkenes, M. (2007) Biodiversity and socioeconomic impacts of selected agro-commodity production systems.
The Journal of Environm ent & Development, 16(2): 131-60.

Mac Sheoin, T. (2009) Waiting for another Bhopal: Global policies to control toxic chemical incidents.
Global Social Policy, 9(3): 408-33.

O'Neill, K. (1998) Out of the backyard: The problems of hazardous waste management at a global level.
Journal of Environment & Development, 7(2): 138-63.

Rice, J. (2007) Ecological unequal exchange: Consumption, equity, and unsustainable structural relationships within the global economy.
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, February 48(1): 43-72.

Toly, N.J. (2004) Globalization and the capitalization of nature: A political ecology of biodiversity in Mesoamerica.
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 24(1): 47-54.

Chapter Sixteen
Winning and Losing: Where You Live Really Matters

Arocena, R. and Senker, P. (2003) Technology, inequality, and underdevelopment: The case of Latin America.
Science, Technology & Human Values, 28(1): 15-33.

Babones, S.J. and Vonada, D.C. (2009) Trade globalization and national income inequality: Are they related?.
Journal of Sociology, 45(1): 5-30.

Mir, A., Mathew, B. and Mir, R. (2000) The codes of migration: Contours of the global software labor market.
Cultural Dynamics, 12(1): 5-33.

Mosley, L. (2008) Workers’ rights in open economies: Global production and domestic institutions in the developing world.
Comparative Political Studies, 41(4-5): 674-714.

Mosley,L. and Uno, S. (2007) Racing to the bottom or climbing to the top? Economic globalization and collective labor rights.
Comparative Political Studies, 40(8): 923-48.

Overbeek, H. (2002) Neoliberalism and the regulation of global labor mobility.
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 581(1): 74-90.

Sanderson, M. and Utz, R. (2009) The globalization of economic production and international migration: An empirical analysis of undocumented Mexican migration to the United States.
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 50(2): 137-54.

Sassen, S. (2000) Regulating immigration in a global age: A new policy landscape.
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 570(1): 65-77.

Stallings, B. (2007) The globalization of capital flows: Who benefits?.
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 610(1): 201-16.

Vernengo, M. (2006) Technology, finance, and dependency: Latin American radical political economy in retrospect.
Review of Radical Political Economics, 38(4): 551-68

Chapter Seventeen
Making the World a Better Place

Calabrese, A. (2005) Communication, global justice and the moral economy.
Global Media and Communication, 1(3): 301-15.

Chase-Dunn, C. (2002) Globalization from below: Toward a collectively rational and democratic global commonwealth.
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 581(1): 48-61.

Christophers, B. (2009) Complexity, finance, and progress in human geography.
Progress in Human Geography, 33(6): 807-24.

Dussel, E. and Ibarra-Colado, E. (2006) Globalization, organization and the ethics of liberation.
Organization, 13(4): 489-508.

Evans, P. (2008) Is an alternative globalization possible?.
Politics & Society, 36(2): 271-305.

Guilhot, N. (2007) Reforming the world: George Soros, global capitalism and the philanthropic management of the social sciences.
Critical Sociology, 33(3): 447-77.

Koechlin, T. (2007) Fighting global poverty, three ways.
Review of Radical Political Economics, 39(3): 377-84.

Locke, R., Amengual, M. and Mangla, A. (2009) Virtue out of necessity? Compliance, commitment, and the improvement of labor conditions in global supply chains.
Politics & Society, 37(3): 319-51.

Noël, A. (2006) The new global politics of poverty.
Global Social Policy, 6(3): 304-33.

Tshuma L. (2000) Hierarchies and government versus networks and governance: Competing regulatory paradigms in global economic regulation.
Social & Legal Studies, 9(1): 115-42