This lesson uses Thomas Friedman's book "The World is Flat" and the concept of globalization to explore the factors impacting distance decay and space-time compression.

Glocalization is about embracing the concept that the global economy is, in essence, a series of local economies.

Globalization researchers believe that this new round of globalization, compared to the former one, has three characteristics. Firstly, there is a shift of economic powers.

Globalization is widely perceived as the master concept of our time. Yet a consistent definition remains elusive. Ironically, while participants in the globalization debate disagree over the meaning ...

What should — and may — go away is the fantasy of a smooth-running, extremely profitable, horrifically polluting concept of globalization as the path to a sustainable future.

The concept of globalization appears nowhere in any of these understandings, agreements or de facto alliances. The meaning is clear: Globalization is history.

To derive new insights into the growing number of multiethnic, immigrant, transnational families in the United States and abroad, we need to incorporate the concept of globalization into our analysis.

The term globalization became popular in the 1990’s during the post-Cold War euphoria that spawned hopes of a new era of peace and harmony. The core of this alternative belief system was that ...