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Abstract
In the age of economic globalization, industries and corporations are increasingly faced with new market realities owing to the intensification of international competition. This study posits that corporations either use resistance through political voice or decide to restructure to adapt to these realities. Three Japanese textile industries with poor competitiveness were selected as case studies and were observed from the perspective of corporate survival strategies. The towel industry in Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture, implemented resistance through a voice strategy; the glove industry in Higashikagawa City, Kagawa Prefecture, chose to move manufacturing overseas as an adjustment strategy; and the uniform industry in Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture, chose to utilize foreign workers as another adjustment strategy. These findings address the gap between prior research on 'adaptation' and research on political 'resistance' and demonstrate that variations exist in the strategies employed by less competitive industries.

Globalization can be conceptualized as a basic transformation in the scale of human social organization that links distant communities and expands the reach of power relations across regions and continents. Contemporary Globalization is a multi-dimensional, uneven and asymmetric process. It's transforming but not burying the Westphalian idea of sovereign statehood. A conceptual change in our thinking about world politics from a primarily geopolitical perspective to the perspective of globalized or global politics of worldwide social relations is required. Global Politics is more accurately to be described as distorted global politics because it is afflicted by significant power asymmetries. The presented volume provides an interdisciplinary approach on global structures and transition - from economic, computer, social and political science perspectives.

Globalization, the concept used to account for the multitude of linkages, interconnections and interdependences that currently transcend territorial and sociocultural boundaries in the world, has been in the centre of continual controversy over its meaning, scope, intensity and social significance for post-modern societies. However, whether considered from the narrow angle of current socio-economic developments, or from the broad perspective of evolutionary processes straddling all spheres of...