Corporate Globalization and the Liberal Order: Disembedding and Reembedding Governing Norms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Gerard Ruggie
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Globalization

The Huawei Model

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Wen
Keyword(s):  
Digital Economy ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
Corporate Globalization ◽  
Ict Development ◽  
Innovation Leadership ◽  
Distinguishing Features

With the rise of China’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector, a number of Chinese high-tech firms are approaching transnational stages and shifting the center of gravity in global ICT markets. In the meantime, China’s digital economy has raised the debate with regard to the nature and direction of its developmental model. This book investigates Huawei Technologies—China’s most competitive high-tech company—as a microcosm of the rise of China’s corporate power and its evolving digital economy. Yun Wen first traces Huawei’s history against the backdrop of China’s ICT development and its outward expansion in global markets. Focusing on Huawei’s research and development strategies, she then delineates Huawei’s path to its cutting-edge technology and innovation leadership. Huawei’s distinct experience in the design of its ownership structure and labor practices is also examined in the book. By examining how Huawei’s growth intertwined with the trajectory of China’s ICT development and how it responded to various forces of corporate China’s globalization, this book sheds light on distinguishing features of the “Huawei model” and the geopolitical economic implications of China’s corporate globalization. It argues that the core of China’s pathbreaking model lies in local alternatives and indigenous agencies that have the ability to insist on a self-reliant, open-minded, and innovation-oriented developmental strategy.

The Uses and Abuses of Time

Dead Ringers ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shehzad Nadeem
Keyword(s):  
Work Hours ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Global Outsourcing ◽  
Network Time ◽  
Corporate Globalization ◽  
Work Cycle ◽  
Transnational Companies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Mental And Physical Health ◽  
Night Shifts

This chapter examines how transnational companies make use of what it calls time arbitrage—the exploitation of time discrepancies between geographical labor markets to make a profit. The extension of work hours through global outsourcing raises the possibility of a 24-hour work cycle. This means long hours for offshore Indian workers. The other option is the direct adoption of Western timings in offshore offices. This translates into permanent night shifts for workers as spatial and temporal disorientation are neatly combined. The chapter considers the impact of offshore workers' long, busy, and odd hours on family and friends as well as mental and physical health. It highlights the tension between the network time of corporate globalization and the prosaic rhythms of ordinary life. It shows that time arbitrage has resulted in long work hours, an intense work pace, and temporal displacement among Indian offshore workers.

Private Prisons

2019 ◽  
pp. 279-302
Author(s):  
Volker Janssen
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Global South ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Private Prisons ◽  
Prison Labor ◽  
Corporate Globalization ◽  
Government Planning ◽  
Services Outsourcing

The chapter considers privatization, private prisons, and prison services outsourcing within a Sun Belt to Global South framework. Eschewing the inclination to frame the Sunbelt as a region that merely modernized the South, the chapter reveals instead a series of contradictions—chief among them neoliberal rhetoric and anti-statist politics alongside the seemingly contrasting policies that were dependent on New Deal–era public infrastructure and government planning. By analyzing such service industries as health care, telecommunications, food catering, and construction within a public–private partnership, this chapter reveals how privatization masks neoliberal anti-statism even when growing the state through mass incarceration. The model for this fusion of public services and private industries was the Cold War’s defense industries, where contractors played a pivotal role in decision making within a symbiotic partnership. The chapter concludes that the modern-day prison industrial complex is more a product of the New Deal state than of a neoliberal conservative ascendency. When the Sunbelt’s private–public partnership partnered with corporate globalization, contemporary prison labor occurs within a “Global South” marketplace more than a framework of “neo-slavery.”

Cyborgs and Cyberpunks

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas J. Loveless
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Corporate Globalization ◽  
The World ◽  
Theoretical Issues

This conceptual chapter introduces theoretical issues to consider when reflecting on digital technologies in educational processes. Rather than beginning this book with a practical discussion of how to employ digital technologies as teaching or learning tools, the ideas presented here, and in this section of the book, provide a beginning to philosophically probing the implications of integrating such technologies into schooling. This type of reflection, initiated in this chapter and developed further in others, should continue throughout the book to inform perspectives shaped when reading about more practical matters. Ideally, theory and practice concerning digital technologies form a cyclical relationship. The dialogue presented here on empowerment, identity, and social/corporate globalization will hopefully lead to a Freirian notion of praxis involving reflection and action that transforms the world.

Genetic Algorithm and Other Meta-Heuristics

2005 ◽  
pp. 144-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard K.S. Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Schema Theory ◽  
Heuristic Methods ◽  
Optimal Solutions ◽  
Corporate Globalization ◽  
Global Optimal ◽  
Mutation And Selection

Genetic algorithms have been applied in solving various types of large-scale, NP-hard optimization problems. Many researchers have been investigating its global convergence properties using Schema Theory, Markov Chain, etc. A more realistic approach, however, is to estimate the probability of success in finding the global optimal solution within a prescribed number of generations under some function landscapes. Further investigation reveals that its inherent weaknesses that affect its performance can be remedied, while its efficiency can be significantly enhanced through the design of an adaptive scheme that integrates the crossover, mutation and selection operations. The advance of Information Technology and the extensive corporate globalization create great challenges for the solution of modern supply chain models that become more and more complex and size formidable. Meta-heuristic methods have to be employed to obtain near optimal solutions. Recently, a genetic algorithm has been reported to solve these problems satisfactorily and there are reasons for this.

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