Jones, Andrew 1973-

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Jones, Andrew 1973-

PERSONAL:

Born March 11, 1973.

ADDRESSES:

Office—School of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St., Room 710, London WC1E 7HX, England; fax: +44 (0) 207 631 6498. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Geographer, educator, and writer. University of London, Birkbeck College, London, England, reader in human geography.

MEMBER:

Royal Geographical Society, Association of American of Geographers (board member of Economic Geography Specialty Group).

WRITINGS:

Management Consultancy and Banking in an Era of Globalization, Palgrave Macmillan (New York, NY), 2003.

Review of Gap Year Provision, Department for Education Skills (London, England), 2004.

Dictionary of Globalization, Polity (Cambridge, MA), 2006.

Also contributor to books, including A Feminist Glossary of Human Geography, edited by L. McDowell and J. Sharp, Arnold (London, England), 1999. Contributor of articles to periodicals and professional journals, including Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Progress in Human Geography, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Voluntary Action, Journal of Economic Geography, Geoforum, and Political Geography. Author of book reviews for the Economic Geography Research Group and for periodicals, including Ecumene and Journal of Urban & Regional Research.

SIDELIGHTS:

Andrew Jones specializes in human geography and has a special interest in large corporations and their relationship to globalization. "At root, I am an economic geographer with a leaning towards the sociocultural aspects of economic activity, although in researching globalization more widely what I do has implications for urban studies as well," the author notes in his faculty profile on the School of Geography, Birkbeck College, University of London Web site. In his book Management Consultancy and Banking in an Era of Globalization, the author takes a critical look at the globalization debate and presents his view that current management theory concerning globalization is fraught with dangers and contradictions for business practitioners. The author investigates globalization within the context of management consultancy and investment bankers and includes interviews with senior managers to explain the complexity of global business activities. The author also takes a sociological perspective in examining corporate structure, managerial control, and the cultural and social activity of conducting global business. Jones is also the author of the Dictionary of Globalization. The book provides an A-Z list of entries covering all the major aspects of globalization. Entries are divided into three major categories: institutions and organizations, processes and phenomena, and key thinkers.