Globalizing Action on Climate Change -- Globalization and Growth: A Macroeconomic Perspective -- A New Age Dawning -- Globalization for Growth in the Aviation Maintenance Repair and Overhaul Industry -- The New Face of Globalization: Seven Key Trends and the Critical Need to Innovate -- An Agenda for Phase 4 of Globalization -- Globalization and Demographic Change – A New Age for Human Resource Management -- The Industrial Revolution of Information Technology -- Service Providers and Their Ecosystem in Globalization 2.0 -- Mastering the Globalization Challenge -- Power to the Workers: Out with the Capitalists -- Globalization Considered from the Point of View of Thomas Hobbes’ ‘Image of Man’ -- Mercy for Those Realizing Global Opportunities Through Offshoring and Outsourcing Effectively -- Globalization in the Automotive Industry–Impact and Trends -- Manage Energy Better -- Globalization? Not Without the Logistics! -- Metamorphosis of Telco Architecture -- Communications – One of the Basic Global Utilities, Bringing People Together? -- Afterword.

The recent near-collapse of the global financial sector and the resulting economic problems have caused a great deal of re-examining of the fundamental principles of globalization. This book showcases how leading managers perceive the current crises and the future of globalization. It offers trendsetting answers, solutions and a roadmap for the roadblocks facing future economic growth which are proposed by leading minds from world-leading companies such as CISCO Systems, British Telecom, Lufthansa Technik, Henkel, A.T. Kearney, Roland Berger, Arthur D. Little, Kienbaum, T-Systems, Mercedes -Benz technology, Landis & Gyr, Conergy.