The Diversity Advantage: Multicultural Identity in the New World Economy

by G. Pascal Zachary

Book Overview

Why is Japan, a country that looked economically invincible a decade ago, stagnating, while long-moribund Ireland booms? What are the qualities that will ensure the continued dominance of U.S. culture, society, and business? In The Diversity Advantage, G. Pascal Zachary provides a provocative roadmap to the new civilization arising out of sweeping shifts in the world economy. He reveals -- through vivid examples of individuals and institutions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813340500
• ISBN13: 9780813340500
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant and timely

"Diversity Advantage" is an updated version of Zachary's 2000 "the Global Me." Zachary makes the case for why diversity can be a resource for companies, institutions, and states. Briefly, hybrids-- such people of mixed ethnic or social backgrounds, and immigrants-- today are growing in numbers, public prominence, and economic importance: they jump-start regional and national economies, give industries a critical edge, strengthen states, and diversify the intellectual capital of corporations. Indeed, hybridity is the modern philosopher's stone, the key to economic vitality among global corporations and advanced nations.