scholarly journals Speeding Up “Slowbalization”: The Political Economy of Global Production before and after COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukas Linsi
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
The Political ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Early Assessment ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Before And After ◽  
To Come ◽  
One Year

The global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 brutally exposed the vulnerabilities of hyperconnected just-in-time production networks. It was met by prominent calls by business and political leaders to prioritize resilience over efficiency and to reshore global production. About one year later, this commentary provides an early assessment of the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the political economy of globalized production. Rather than fundamentally changing the structural organization of multinational corporations, it is argued, the pandemic highlighted and accelerated important trends that were already well underway before the outbreak of the pandemic. Even though the COVID-19 crisis has not fundamentally altered infrastructures of global production, there are indications that transnational production networks may be in the process of bifurcating further into US- and China-centered spheres—with more cross-border integration within but less across the two—in the years to come.

The Road of Computer Code Featuring the Political Economy of Copyleft and Legal Analysis of the General Public License

2011 ◽  
pp. 348-362
Author(s):  
Robert Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Open Source ◽  
General Public ◽  
Computer Software ◽  
The Political ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
The Road ◽  
To Come ◽  
General Public License

This chapter examines the development of open source computer software with specific reference to the political economy of copyleft and the legalities associated with the General Public License (GPL). It will be seen that within the context of computer software development the notion of copyleft provides an important contrast to more traditional uses of copyright. This contrast symbolizes political, economic, and social struggles which are contextualized within this chapter. As the GPL is an important legal embodiment of copyleft, its legalities are preliminarily explored so as to determine its future potential. While there is some scope to further refine the legal strength of the GPL, it will be seen that it remains a strong and subversive legal instrument which will continue to underlie open source initiatives in the years to come.

Marketing Channel Management by Multinational Corporations in Foreign Markets

2018 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajdeep Grewal ◽  
Amit Saini ◽  
Alok Kumar ◽  
F. Robert Dwyer ◽  
Robert Dahlstrom
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Marketing Channel ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
The Political ◽  
Channel Management ◽  
Foreign Subsidiaries ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
Channel Structures

Multinational corporations (MNCs) are adopting increasingly diverse and complex marketing channels to sell their products worldwide. They strive to manage channels that confront diverse demands from headquarters, foreign subsidiaries, and local partners as well as complex market environments. Because extant research on MNCs’ marketing channels is sparse, the authors propose an organizing framework to spur and guide research on MNC channel management. As a meta-theory that integrates economic and social elements of MNC channel management, the political economy perspective is used to propose two testable frameworks pertaining to determinants of (1) MNC marketing channel structures and processes and (2) MNC marketing channel outcomes. Building on these frameworks, the authors advance a research agenda to test substantive relationships, elaborate new constructs, and illustrate new contexts pertaining to MNC marketing channels. A set of propositions illustrates the applicability of these conceptual frameworks.

Hematologies

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Copeman ◽  
Dwaipayan Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Meaning ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Blood Sacrifice

This book is an account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India. It examines how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. The book traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist practices. Using examples from anti-colonial appeals to blood sacrifice as a political philosophy to contemporary portraits of political leaders drawn with blood, from the use of the substance by Bhopali children as a material of activism to biomedical anxieties and aporias about the excess and lack of donation, the book broaches how political life in India has been shaped through the use of blood and through contestations about blood. As such, the book offers new entryways into thinking about politics and economy through a “bloodscape of difference:” different sovereignties, different proportionalities, and different temporalities. These entryways allow exploration of the relation between blood's utopic flows and political clottings as it moves through time and space, conjuring new kinds of social collectivities while reanimating older forms, and always in a reflexive relation to norms that guide its proper flow.

scholarly journals The process of establishment of Roma elite. The case of Cluj.

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-86
Author(s):  
Réka Geambașu
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Political Dialogue ◽  
Roma Population ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come

In Romania, the political leaders of the Roma community and the main actors from civil organizations face a particular situation. The legitimization of their leadership position ought to come neither from Roma population, nor from the non-n-Roma, but from the political elite of the majority-state who might accept or reject them as partners of political dialogue, as legitimate representatives of the Roma population. The Romanian political actors decide who or whose circle will be considered the legitimate delegate of the Roma, their attitude constituting the major determinant of the Roma elite configuration. Roma issues are thus defined from above, by outsiders who circumscribe the social space at the disposal of Roma leaders, mark their public discourse and delimit the area of their initiatives. The study of Geambaşuşu Réka sheds light on this subject by presenting the case of Cluj.

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