Global Phenomena and Social Sciences

Forward.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: Political Science.- Chapter 2: Management.- Chapter 3: Economics.- Chapter 4: Anthropology.- Chapter 5: Law.

Jean-Sylvestre Bergé (Ed.) is a professor of international and European law and intellectual property law at Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University (EDIEC), co-director of a group of Research in European Law (GDR CNRS ELSJ), senior member of the Institut universitaire de France (IUF). He has mobilized three consecutive research themes (interaction between international and European law ; Europeanisation of law ; contextualized global legal pluralism). He is currently working on an interdisciplinary and comparative approach of specific and complex inter-territorial phenomena.

Ulrike Mayrhofer (Ed.) is a professor of International Business at IAE Lyon, Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University where she is responsible for the International MBA and the research group "International Business" at the Magellan Research Center. She is also the President of Atlas AFMI - Association Francophone de Management International. Her research deals with internationalisation strategies and the management of multinational companies.

Sophie Harnay (Ed.) is a professor of Economics at the University of Lorraine and researcher at the laboratory BETA CNRS UMR 7522. She is the author of several articles, books and chapters in the field of law and economics and the economics of institutions. Her research interests include the analysis of the judicial system, law-making in a global context, and the regulation of professions in France and Europe.

Lionel Obadia (Ed.) PhD in sociology, is a full professor in Anthropology at the University of Lyon 2. He is specialized in religions, cultural diffusion and the issue of Globalization. He has conducted research in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. He is the author of La marchandisation de Dieu (2013), and articles such as Globalization and the Sociology of Religion. In: Bryan Turner (Ed.) The New Companion for the Sociology of Religion, Oxford 2010. He is a board member of the Journal of Religiousand Political Practice.