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Anthropology of Globalization: Cultural Anthropology Enters the 21st Century

Author: Ted C Lewellen

Lewellen gives us the first analytic overview of an important new subject area in a field that has long been identified with the study of relatively bounded communities. "Globalization" refers to the increasing flows of trade, finance, culture, ideas, and people brought about by the sophisticated technology of communications and travel and by the worldwide spread of neoliberal capitalism. Unlike dependency theory and world systems analysis, which tended to assume a bird's-eye perspective, globalization offers a down-and-dirty, ground-up approach in which ethnographic research is not marginal but essential.

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Stating his goal as providing a "broad, easily digested overview" of the field of the anthropology of globalization, Lewellen (anthropology, U. of Richmond) presents a series of 13 essays that discuss some of the important issues affecting people subjected to the growing worldwide dominance of the neoliberal agenda. Early essays focus on theoretical issues, defining the term globalization and asking how it should be studied in the area of anthropology. Later chapters discuss the role of migration on transnationalism, diasporas, and refugee populations. Finally, examinations of the interaction of local tribal cultures and peasant communities with the forces of globalization are included. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Introduction: Who Is Alma?	1
Pt. I	Globalizing Anthropology	5
2	Slouching Toward Globalization	7
3	The Anthropology of Globalization	29
4	Development, Devolution, and Discourse	61
5	Constructing Identity	89
Pt. II	Globalization and Migration	121
6	Migration: People on the Move	123
7	Transnationalism: Living Across Borders	147
8	Diaspora: Yearning for Home	159
9	Refugees: The Anthropology of Forced Migration	171
Pt. III	Global/Local	185
10	Globalization from the Ground Up	187
11	Tribal Cultures: No Longer Victims	203
12	Peasants: Survivors in a Global World	217
13	Afterthoughts, by Way of Conclusions	233
	Notes	241
	Bibliography	251
	Index	273

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Economic Foundations of Strategy (Foundations for Organizational Science)

Author: Joseph T Mahoney

"Economic Foundations of Strategy uniquely contributes to the strategic management discipline by discussing and integrating the most important theoretical approaches in strategic management research. The book articulates the essence of these theories creatively and eloquently. Currently, our field lacks a scholarly book that brings together these theoretical building blocks of strategic management research.  Mahoney's book is a superb guide for doctoral students and scholars who are entering the discipline of strategic management.  I conjecture that this book will become a must-have guide for seasoned strategy researchers as well... scholars from related disciplines such as industrial organization economics, international business and organization would also want to have a copy of this phenomenal guide... It was a pleasure to read this book." -- Yasemin Y. Kor, University of Delaware

Economic Foundations of Strategy provides not only the essential basic tenets of strategy, it also shows the inter-relationships of five major theories of the firm: the behavioral theory; transaction costs theory; property rights theory; agency theory; and dynamic resource-based theory.  Even though technological, organizational and institutional change advances breathlessly, the theories of the firm provided in this research book are durable principles that have stood, and the author maintains will continue to stand, the test of time.  Economic Foundations of Strategy emphasizes the complementarities among these five theories of organization, and the potential for integrating these theories in the evolvingscience of organization.  Applications of these theories to business practice are emphasized throughout the book.  

Key Features:   • Provides an integrative approach -Covers economics (e.g., transaction costs, property rights and agency theory); -Covers finance (e.g., real options theory) -Covers organization theory (e.g., the behavioral theory of the firm); and -Covers modern strategic management theory (e.g., dynamic resource-based theory).   • Connects "Know-why" and "Know-how" -Covers the theoretical material deeply enough to be of use to advanced students -Connects this research to business applications to be of use to those interested in business practice