... forward. Despite the book’s limitations, the editors and authors deserve praise for wrestling with the extremely important challenge of reducing global inequalities and putting forward possible solutions. There are growing signs that the neoliberal order of recent decades is fraying, creating...

... success and proliferation, and more recent critiques of these ideas. Develops alternative conceptualization – mobile subjectivities – via literatures on mobilities in the context of globalization. Illustrates the value of these arguments with ethnographic examples from a multi-sited ethnographic project...

...Beverly Dawn Metcalfe; Chris J. Rees; Yvonne A. Braun Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the intersections of gender, development and globalization through an investigation of the ways in which a large‐scale, internationally financed multi‐dam development project, the Lesotho...

...Beverly Dawn Metcalfe; Chris J. Rees; Beverly Dawn Metcalfe; Christopher J. Rees Purpose Current debates on neo‐liberal and universalistic globalization pay little attention to gender or to other marginalized groups, and fail to consider the complexity and diversity of the experiences of men...

...) and the intended audience (local vs global). Native owned companies with web sites intended to a local audience tend to ignore diversity issues altogether. Research limitations/implications The study was limited to a single country's data, and to the discourse rather than actual practices. However, the paper...

...Beverly Dawn Metcalfe; Chris J. Rees; Janne Tienari; Eero Vaara; Susan Meriläinen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address gender and management in contemporary globalization by focusing on the ways in which male top managers in a multinational corporation (MNC) construct their identities...

.... Originality/value The paper presents a close look at Islamic women from the Dawoodi Bohra community whose lived experience represents a negotiation between their spirituality, patriarchy, migration, ethnicity and minority. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Entrepreneurialism Globalization...

.... Women Sciences Globalization Equal opportunities © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Kordual Kugele can be contacted at: kordula.kugele@hs‐furtwanged.de Because this conference offered an abundance of lectures and sessions, in this article I mainly focus on the invited lecturers...

... of cultural differences in global management systems and the other focusing on cultural differences between the USA and Mexico. The final paper incorporating diversity issues focused on the influence of cultural differences within student teams on individual learning. Originality/value The diversity...

...Katerina Nicolopoulou; Mine Karatas‐Ozkan; Ahu Tatli; Katerina Nicolopoulou; Mine Karatas‐Ozkan Purpose The paper aims to generate insights into practitioners’ understanding of global knowledge work/workers by exploring the perspectives of an artist and economist. Design/methodology/approach...

...Kelly Woodford; Jeanne D. Maes Globally, organisations are adjusting to meet the challenges of the constantly‐changing marketplace. In the area of human resource management, many multinational organisations are focusing in making the organisation more productive, cost‐effective, and customer...