Chapters in this book include: (1) Internationalization and Globalization in Higher Education (Douglas E. Mitchell and Selin Yildiz Nielsen); (2) Higher Educational Reform Values and the Dilemmas of Change: Challenging Secular Neo-Liberalism (James Campbell); (3) "Red Light" in Chile: Parents Participating as Consumers of Education Under Global Neoliberal Policies (Veronica Lopez, Romina Madrid and Vicente Sisto); (4) Promoting Social Capital, Empowerment and Counter-Stereotypical Behavior in Male and Female Students in Online CSCL Communities (Donata Francescato, Minou E. Mebane, Manuela Tomai, Maura Benedetti and Veronica Rosa); (5) From Prescribed to Narrative Curriculum--An Attempt to Understand Educational Change in Portugal (Elsa Estrela); (6) Acting in a Globalized World: Marketing Perspective (Gabriel Awuah); (7) The Rise of Transportation and Logistics in Europe 1950--2000 (Richard Vahrenkamp); (8) Human Resource Management and Performance: From Practices Towards Sustainable Competitive Advantage (Asta Savaneviciene and Zivile Stankeviciute); (9) The Context of Globalization and Human Resource Need and Strategy for Developing Countries--The Case of African Countries (Philemon Kazimil Mzee); (9) Global Standards for Supply Chain Management in Consumer Packaged Goods Industry (Virgil Popa); (11) The Company's Logistic Activity in the Conditions of Current Globalisation (Ioan-Constantin Dima, Mariana Man and Stefan Vladutescu); (12) Strategic Dimensions of the SME System in Romania in the Context of the European Strategic Framework (Delia Mioara Popescu, Constanta Popescu, Ana Lucia Ristea and Daniel Dumitru Stan); and (13) The Impact of Globalization on Cross-Cultural Communication (Lowell C. Matthews and Bharat Thakkar). (Individual chapters contain figures and references.)