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The assertion that life on this planet is becoming more complexly interconnected through various forms of economic, political, social, and cultural integration is a starting point for many analyses of ‘globalization’. Several influential conceptualizations (or narratives) have been developed over the past couple of decades in various academic disciplines in order to make sense of these developments, including ‘post-industrialism’,2 ‘flexible accumulation’,3 ‘post-Fordism’,4 ‘techno-capitalism’,5 and ‘the network society’.6 Each of these accounts of globalization offers valuable insights. Yet each, inevitably, also incorporates various theoretical weaknesses and limitations. Taken collectively, their insights and shortcomings have together inspired the present work, which strives to build upon the former and resolve some of the latter.
I would like to thank Preet S. Aulakh and Michael G. Schechter. Also Gail Campana, David Barry, the participants of the conference on ‘Globalization and Its (Dis)contents’, and the members of the Research Seminar Series of the Department of Management and Employment Relations, University of Auckland.
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Jones, M.T. (2000). Blade Runner Capitalism: A New Narrative on Globalization. In: Aulakh, P.S., Schechter, M.G. (eds) Rethinking Globalization(s). International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62425-6_13
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