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The term ‘globalization’ has served as an arresting metaphor to provide explanation, meaning, and understanding of the nature of contemporary capitalism, though not all of the processes that currently come under the rubric of globalization are new.1 It is meant to suggest a number of analytically distinct phenomena and developments within the international system, while combining them into a single overarching process of change. Considerable attention centres on the application of new (often information based) technologies to the production process, and parallel changes in management, organization, and communications at corporate, societal, and state levels.
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Amoore, L., Dodgson, R., Gills, B., Langley, P., Marshall, D., Watson, I. (2000). Overturning ‘Globalization’: Resisting Teleology, Reclaiming Politics. In: Gills, B.K. (eds) Globalization and the Politics of Resistance. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230519176_2
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