World Class

Rosabeth Moss Kanter's three-C framework — concepts, competence, connections — gave cities and business leaders a useful language for thinking about globalization at a moment of real public anxiety, and the fieldwork behind it is serious. Kirkus noted the prescriptions are coherent but conventional, and three decades of global economic change have dated some of the specifics. Still historically interesting for those studying the 1990s globalization debate; less useful as a current strategic guide.