Wissenschaftliche Literatur Globalization

Pawel Sobczyk (ed.)

Security and Globalization in the Context of European Integration

Legal Aspects

Studien zum Völker- und Europarecht

The three notions making up the title – security, globalization and European integration – constitute the pivotal point of the academic discourse presented in this publication. Various legal aspects of the issues in question are indicated by the subtitle as the point of departure. A legal approach to the said issues is not the only possible perspective to view the subject due to their interdisciplinary character and, consequently, interest exhibited by researchers of…

Leul-Tamrat Temesgen

The Concept of Financial Globalization in the Ethiopian Banking Sector and its Implications for State Sovereignty and Development

Studien zum Völker- und Europarecht

In dieser Studie wird zunächst untersucht, ob die Ära der ersten ausländischen Banken in Äthiopien im 20. Jahrhundert Auswirkungen auf den aktuellen Umgang der äthiopischen Regierung mit ausländischen Banken hat.

Weiterhin werden die jüngsten Reformen und Gesetze in Bezug auf den Bankensektor in Äthiopien sowie der aktuelle Umgang mit ausländischen Finanzinstituten in Äthiopien untersucht. Der äthiopische Finanzsektor wurde im Lichte der Finanzglobalisierung…

Mehmet E. Altin

Internationalization Through Localization: Gülen Inspired Schools

EUB. Erziehung – Unterricht – Bildung

For this study, Dr. Altin conducted an empirical study and visited Gülen inspired schools in Europe, Africa and the US. He focuses on three important issues about the Gülen Inspired schools, namely: the educational concept of the Gülen inspired schools, their global expansion, and the current situation of these schools, especially under the political pressure of the Erdogan regime after the failed coup attempt in July 2016 in Turkey. [...]

Sijing Zhou

English in Chinese Popular Culture

Discourses of TV Commercials, Popular Music and Entertainment TV Shows

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

In the past few decades, a number of studies have addressed various aspects of English in China. Although few studies to date have investigated English in Chinese pop culture, the influence from Western culture and the English language on Chinese culture cannot be ignored. Thus, focusing on English in Chinese pop culture is an appropriate and significant topic.

First, surveying the history of English development in China and exploring the current roles and…

Leyla Aydemir (ed.)

Migration, Politics, Violence and Women‘s Studies

SOCIALIA – Studienreihe soziologische Forschungsergebnisse

The development of science, research and technology depends on international knowledge transfer. Because of that, the studies that technical and natural sciences have done in collaboration with social and human sciences are inevitable in order to find solutions to the current social problems and to meet the expected needs.

Current social questions can no longer be resolved solely with the work of natural sciences, but they also need research in the social and…

Irmela Gorges / Linda A. Winkler (Eds.)

Economy and Social Conditions in Transition

Probleme und Chancen der Globalisierung

This book is interdisciplinary in scope, written for economists, educators, and for individuals working on the fields of globalization, and its impacts on societal development. The book analyzes the current economic and social development in selected countries with different economic conditions relative to the impact of globalization and infrastructure development. The volume contains six selected papers presented at the annual conference of the Congress of Political…

Robert Pfeffer

Location and Strategy – Analyzing the Effect of the Local Environment on a Portfolio of Strategy-Performance-Relationships of Bavarian Key-Tech SMEs

Strategisches Management

„Economic activity is distributed unequally across space [...]“ (Ketels, 2013). This insight is not new. It dates back at least to the nineteenth century, when Alfred Marshalls Principles of Economics (1890) offered a first-of-its-kind analysis of the agglomeration of people and economic activity in geographic space.

Paradoxically, the agglomeration of people and economic activity has continued to be one of the most important phenomena throughout the twentieth…

Andreas Bletschacher

The Future of SPS Dispute Settlement at the World Trade Organization

EC-Biotech and US-Continued Suspension as Examples for the Proceduralization of SPS Issues

Studien zum Völker- und Europarecht

First, the book aims to develop a theory of what the status of the WTO is and how it has developed so far.

Starting with a short description of the old GATT system, the first chapter introduces the reader to the multilateral trading system. The chapter provides an overview of the Dispute Settlement Mechanism and explain the new Dispute Settlement Understanding, established in the Uruguay Round.

Chapter II examines the health-related provisions…

Tina Busch

Verbal Modalities in Corporate Publications

A Cross-Cultural Approach

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

In a time of globalization, business corporations have expanded their activities to the global market and communicate with local and global audiences competing with one another in terms of market share, financial investments, brand awareness, and audience trust. As national and corporate cultures meet and compete on various levels of business, a consistent corporate identity and a positive public image can be the crucial factors that decide between success or failure of a…

Jasmina Kitanović

Internationalization of Innovation Systems

Lessons from Eastern Europe

EURO-Wirtschaft – Studien zur ökonomischen Entwicklung Europas

Innovation and technological change are repeatedly recognized as the main driving forces for economic development and growth. Economies which are characterized by faster growth rates compared to others are those which are in a position to create and economically use new technologies, production processes and products more successfully. In addition, economic development depends on the increasing process of globalization. Economies have to be integrated within global…