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Globalization
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Globalization

by Veronica Binda, Andrea Colli
April 2024
Intermediate to advanced
160 pages
5h 15m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 6 Global Leviathans

DOI: 10.4324/9780429490255-6

6.1 Governments and globalization

As the previous chapter has shown, globalization has had, and continues to have, a powerful impact on the structures, strategies and performances of both domestic and international firms. It has also shown how multinational companies have historically been among the drivers that promoted globalization itself. The aim of this chapter is to include another important player of a different nature – national governments, which are, and have constantly been in the past, powerful agents in the ongoing process of global integration.

Governments can play a pivotal role on at least two levels. The first level has already been analyzed in depth in Chapter 4, and ...

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