by Mauro F. Guillén · Princeton University Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780691057057
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«The Limits of Convergence» is the academic essay by Mauro F. Guillén, published by Princeton University Press in hardcover (298 pages, in English).
The book questions whether globalization produces economic convergence and cultural homogenization. Comparing Argentina, South Korea, and Spain since 1950, Guillén analyzes the different roles of business groups, SMEs, and multinationals, and concludes that globalization fosters diversity and that democracy is the appropriate framework.
The full subtitle is «Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain»; first edition published in 2001.
An academic work aimed at university students, researchers, and professionals in economics, sociology, and development studies.
Mauro F. Guillén is a Spanish-American sociologist and political economist who is currently the William H. Wurster Professor of Multinational Management at the Wharton School. In March 2021, he was named Dean of the Cambridge Judge Business School, and a Fellow of Queens' College at the University of Cambridge; he returned to Wharton in 2023. Until July 2021, he directed the Penn Lauder Center for International Business Education and Research, and was the Anthony L. Davis Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies from 2007 to 2019. His book 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything was a Wall Street Journal bestseller and a Financial Times Book of the Year.
