The claim is that globalization has decreased the significance of companies’ national roots. This book on the limits of globalization debunks the claim by stating that the national roots of companies have remained important for example in global management. Regardless of globalization, even many strongly globalized companies recognize the need to develop the working life of their country of origin.

It has been argued that globalization has opened up national borders. According to the work, this is only partly true because nation-states still protect themselves in a variety of ways. Many countries seem relatively open but are in fact socially, culturally, and economically quite strict about their borders.

It has also been claimed that the various parts of the world are becoming increasingly uniform and intertwined because of globalization. The book demonstrates, however, that the forces unifying the continents may also create diversity in certain situations and constructions.

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Editors: Risto Tainio, Susan Meriläinen, Jukka Mäkinen, and Maarit Laihonen: Limits to Globalization: National Borders Still Matter, Copenhagen Business School Press, 2014.