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The first issue of COMPETITION AND CHANGE: THE JOURNAL OF GLOBAL BUSINESS
AND POLITICAL ECONOMY is now available. If you would like a _free copy_,
please send your request along with your name, mailing address, and
institutional affiliation to:
paula.astin@gbpub.com
COMPETITION AND CHANGE examines the changing nature of business
organization in the increasingly competitive global economy. The journal
draws on recent scholarship in business economics, organizational
sociology, economic geography, international relations and developmental
studies to explore the interplay of economic, political and social forces
contributing to global integration and regional fragmentation.
Contents of Volume I, Issue 1 include:
Richard Appelbaum and Jeffrey Henderson, "The Hinge of History:
Turbulence and Transformation in the Global Economy"
Karel Williams, "The Crisis of Cost Recovery and the Waste of the
Industrial Nations"
- comments by Grahame Thompson and Martin Carnoy
Ronald Cox, "Corporate Coalitions and Industrial Restructuring:
Explaining Business Supports for Regional Trade Agreements"
Allen Scott, "The Geographic Foundations of Industrial Performance"
Saskia Sassen, "The State and the Global City: Notes Towards a
Conception of Place-Centered Governance"
Volume I, issue 2 (available in January) will include:
Nigel Harris, "Can the West Survive"
Susan Fainstein, "Global Cities and Local Communities: The Cases of New
York and London"
Harvey Molotch, "Local Economies as Works of Art: The Role of Aesthetics
and Design in Los Angeles"
Richard Child Hill, "Looking Through the Rear View Mirror"
Neil Marshall Kay, "Harmony, Mood and Turbulence and athe Development of
Firms"
Issues and Debates: John Urry, "Global-Local Relations and Time"
The cost for subscriptions to COMPETITION AND CHANGE is $45 per volume (US
funds); each volume consists of 4 quarterly issues per year. Please send
a check or money order, payable to International Publishers Distributor.
Also payable by VISA or MasterCard. Send your subscription request to:
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The Journal's Co-Editors are:
Richard P. Appelbaum, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Jeffrey Henderson, Manchester Business School, UK
The Managing Editor is:
Valgeet Johl, Center for Global Studies, Community and Organization
Research Institute, University of California at Santa Barbara.
All submissions should be forwarded in triplicate to the
managing editor.
JOURNAL BOARD OF EDITORS:
Samir Amin, Forum Du Tiers Monde, Bureau Africain, Dakar, Senegal
Alice H. Amsden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Robert Boyer, CEPREMAP, France
Martin Carnoy, Stanford University, USA
Manuel Castells, University of California at Berkeley, USA and Autonomous
University of Madrid, Spain
Edward K. Y. Chen, University of Hong Kong
Peter Dicken, University of Manchester, Britain
Yves Doz, INSEAD, France
Gary Gereffi, Duke University, USA
Anthony Giddens, University of Cambridge, UK
Gary Hamilton, University of Washington, USA
Domenico Mario Nuti, University of Rome (La Sapienza) Italy, and London
Business School, UK
Pang Eng Fong, National University of Singapore
Michael E. Porter, Harvard University, USA
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, USA
Allen Scott, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Kyoko Sheridan, University of Adelaide, Australia
Barbara Stallings, U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and
Caribbean, Chile
Ivan Szelnyi, University of California at Los Angeles, USA, and Hungarian
Academy of Sciences
Robert Wade, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK
Richard Whitley, Manchester Business School, UK
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| Richard P. Appelbaum, Professor of Sociology |
| Director, Community and Organization Research Institute |
| Co-Director, Center for Global Studies |
| (805) 893-7230 phone (805) 893-2790 fax |
| email: appelbau@alishaw.ucsb.edu |
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