Suchergebnisse

Internationale Messen führen Experten aus aller Welt für einen begrenzten Zeitraum an einem Ort zusammen. Als temporäre Cluster bilden sie eine Plattform der Interaktion für fokussierte Communities und sind Ausdruck reflexiver Zeit- und Raumkonstruktionen in der wissensbasierten Ökonomie. Durch die Ko-Präsenz und Ko-Lokation von Unternehmen entsteht eine spezifische, global gespeiste Informations- und Kommunikationsökologie, die als Global Buzz bezeichnet wird. Ausgehend von der Frage, in welcher Weise und an welchen Orten Akteure Zugang zu neuem Wissen und zu Trägern dieses Wissens erhalten, setzt sich diese Arbeit zum Ziel, die mehrdimensionale Struktur des Global Buzz und dessen Komplexität zu analysieren. Über eine empirische Analyse wird die Bedeutung von Leitmessen für die Informations- und Wissenszirkulation für Aussteller untersucht. Mit Hilfe 460 leitfadengestützter Interviews von Messeausstellern auf sieben ausgewählten Messeveranstaltungen in Deutschland (2004 bis 2006) werden die Interaktions- und Informationsstrukturen der Aussteller spezifisch nachgezeichnet. Hierüber ist es unter anderem gelungen, das Phänomen des Global Buzz zu konzeptionalisieren. Auf induktiv und deduktiv abgesicherten Weg ist ein Konzept entwickelt wurden, das die Erfassung unterschiedlicher Formen von Global Buzz über den Messekontext hinaus erlaubt. Die sehr unterschiedlichen Praktiken der Messeaussteller auf den untersuchten Veranstaltungen werden durch industrie-, unternehmens- und produktspezifische Charakteristika bedingt und hiernach systematisiert ...

In this paper, we introduce the fairness approach to efficiency wages into a standard model of international fragmentation. This gives us a theoretical framework in which wage inequality and unemployment rates are co-determined and therefore the public concern can be addressed that international fragmentation and outsourcing to low wage countries lead to domestic joblosses. We develop a novel diagrammatic tool to illustrate the main labour market effects of international fragmentation. We also explore how preferences for fair wages and the size of unemployment benefits govern the employment effects of outsourcing and critically assess the role of political intervention that aims to reduce unemployment benefits under internationally fragmented production.

"International development stakeholders harness communication with two broad purposes: to do good, via communication for development and media assistance, and to communicate do-gooding, via public relations and information. This book unpacks various ways in which different efforts to do good are combined with attempts to look good, be it in the eyes of donor constituencies at large, or among more specific audiences, such as journalists or intra-agency decision makers. Development communication studies have tended to focus primarily on interventions aimed at doing good among recipients, at the expense of examining the extent to which promotion and reputation management are elements of those practices. This book establishes the importance of interrogating the tensions generated by overlapping uses of communication to do good and to look good within international development cooperation. The book is a critical text for students and scholars in the areas of development communication and international development, and will also appeal to practitioners working in international aid who are directly affected by the challenges of communicating for and about development."--Provided by publisher.

We investigate how a domestic subsidy is treated in an international agreement, when a government, having incentive to use its domestic subsidy as a means of import protection, can disguise its protective use of subsidy as a legitimate intervention with which to address a market imperfection. We show that any optimal agreement, as opposed to the conventional message of the targeting principle, restricts the home government's freedom to select its domestic subsidy in order to increase the market-access level for foreign exporters. Our finding suggests that a proper restriction on domestic subsidy is somewhere between GATT and WTO rules.

Venue — the institutional setting in which actors interact — is a critical but neglected factor in international norm creation. This article brings together constructivist and rationalist insights to explain both why and how venue affects norm creation and how norm leaders choose among different venues. First, it highlights the importance of negotiation alongside persuasion in norm emergence — the first stage of Finnemore and Sikkink's (1998) norm life cycle — thus opening space for a full consideration of venues within the constructivist paradigm. Second, it details how venue membership, mandate, output status, rules of procedure/operating procedures and legitimacy affect both the content and the level of international support of an emerging norm. Third, it offers a conceptual framework for understanding how norm leaders choose venues. Finally, it illustrates the impact of venue on norm creation and the dynamics of strategic venue choice by examining venue changes during the movement to ban anti-personnel landmines and the effort to promote international consensus on humanitarian intervention.

"Disciplinary History of International Relations (IR) in South Asia" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Teaching International Relations Theory in Introductory Global Politics Courses" published on by Oxford University Press.