This article reviews and evaluates recent comparative social science scholarship on
healthcare systems. We focus on four of the strongest themes in current research:(a) the …

This paper extends and builds on Ronen and Shenkar's synthesized cultural clustering of
countries based on similarity and dissimilarity in work-related attitudes. The new map uses …

This article addresses the question of whether globalization impacts individual preferences
to exclude immigrants from national welfare systems ('welfare chauvinism'). Intergroup …

Since the late 1960s, there have been significant changes in partnership, fertility and family
formation in many Western societies, first described in the concept of the second …

This purpose of this article is to provide a framework into which we can integrate global
strategy with stakeholder theory. Our aim is to create the basis for a research agenda that …

European policy-makers often speak of their efforts to 'manage globalization'. We argue that
the advocacy of managed globalization is more than a rhetorical device and indeed has …

Since the outbreak of the recent financial crisis we have experienced some of the highest
rates of youth unemployment in history. If we want to avoid branding the young people as a …

Will a one-child policy increase economic growth? Does globalization contribute to global
warming? Are unequal societies less healthy than more egalitarian societies? To answer …

With approximately 200 to 300 million adherents worldwide, Orthodox Christianity is among
the largest branches of Christianity, yet it remains relatively understudied. This book …

Work is, and always will be, a central institution of society. What makes a capitalist society
unique is that it treats the human capacity to engage in labor as a basic commodity. This can …