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• ULV College of Law Professor John Linarelli to Speak at Oxford Conference About the Social Contract and Global Justice

  - 2007-04-18

  Next week, University of La Verne law professor John Linarelli will speak at the University of Oxford conference, "The Social Contract in the Modern Welfare State: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives," scheduled for Apr. 18-20. Linarelli's talk will focus on whether the social contract should be enlarged beyond...

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• Books received/Livres recus

  - 2006-06-22

  Almond, Phil et Anthony Ferner, editors, American Multinationals in Europe. Managing Employment Relations across National Borders, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006, 346 p. Belanger, Laurent et Jean Mercier, Auteurs et textes classiques de la theorie des organisations, Quebec, Presses de l'Universite Laval PUL, 2006, 575 p B.-Turcotte, Marie-France...

  Tags: Books, Borders Books & Music, Cornell University, DES, Globalization, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Books received

  - 2005-09-01

  ADNETT, NICK, and STEPHEN HARDY. The European Social Model: Modernisation or Evolution? Chelten-2005. Pp. 244. Cloth $95.00. AGELL, JONAS, MICHAEL KEEN, and ALFONS J. WEICHENREIDER, eds. Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. 228. Cloth $35.00. AGLIETTA, MICHEL, and ANTOINE REBERIOUX. Corporate Governance Adrift:...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Globalization, Innovation, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Poverty, Princeton University, Robert, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Books received

  - 2005-03-01

  AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK. Africa in the Global Trading System: African Development Report 2004. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 337. Paper $29.95. ALESINA, ALBERTO, and EDWARD L. GLAESER. Fighting Poverty in the U.S. and Europe: A World of Difference. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 264. Cloth...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Globalization, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Richard, Strategy, U.K., University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Books received

  - 2004-09-01

  31NETWORK. India Infrastructure Report 2004: Ensuring Value for Money. New York: Oxford University press, 2004. Pp. 347. Paper $35.00. ADAMS, WALTER, and JAMES W. BROCK. The Bigness Complex: Industry, Labor, and Government in the American Economy. 2d ed. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. 380. Paper $24.95....

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Globalization, M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Poverty, Princeton University, Robert, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Books received, to June 2002.

  - 2002-10-01

  Nadje Al-Ali and Khalid Koser, New Approaches to Migration? Transnational Communities and the Transformation of Home, London: Routledge, Routledge Research in Transnationalism, 2002, 246 pp., 55.00 h.b. [pounds sterling] (ISBN 0-415-25432-9) Brian W. Alleyne, Radicals Against Race: Black Activism and ...

  Tags: Books, Globalization, London, NETWORKING, Strategy, University of Oxford

• Books received.

  - 2002-07-01

  Anthropologizing Sri Lanka: A Eurocentric Misadventure. By Susantha Goonatilake. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 306. Hardcover $39.95. Asian Philosophies. Fourth Edition. By John M. Koller. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2001. Pp. xxi + 361. Price...

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• Globalization but still a large diversity of productive models and corporate governance styles

  - 2002-07-01

  Built upon a series of international comparisons and historical retrospective analyses of the car industry, the article challenges the vision that lean production is the best productive model for the 21st century. From a theoretical standpoint, a productive model is defined by the conjunction of a profit strategy and a...

  Tags: globalization, income, London, Paris, Strategy, University of Oxford

• Call for Papers.

  - 2001-12-05

  Call for Papers -- Oxford University will be holding a research conference on the way the Internet is being shaped by its content producers, with particular emphasis on how social science, law and policy debates affect the Internet. Topics to be bandied about include freedom of...

  Tags: conference, Globalization, INTERNET, Strategy, University of Oxford

• Books received, to January 2000.(Bibliography)

  - 2000-04-01

  Margo J. Anderson and Stephen E. Fienberg, Who Counts? The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999, 319 pp., $32.50 cloth (ISBN 0-87154-246-0) Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Hospitality: Racism and North African Immigrants, New York: Columbia...

  Tags: Books, Cambridge, cloth, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Globalization, Immigration, London, Strategy, University of Oxford