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Conclusion

Our journey in this book began with a metaphor, so perhaps it is fitting to end it with one as well. Give us a hammer, so the saying goes, and the rest of the world will look like a nail. In that sense, glocality, and indeed even the escalation dynamics implied by Figure 6.5, are merely hammers for “nailing” work behavior. Just like any other theory or concept, they are stereotypes - stereotypes that have both information-managing uses and, as well, prejudice-encouraging limitations. Against these costs, it has been argued consistently throughout the book that one particular hammer - the concept of glocality and the dynamic systems which it implies - is probably less “hard” on its proverbial nails - work behaviors and the people who perform them - than its two main predecessors (globality and locality). Those predecessors, and the combined foibles that they arguably promote, have been delimited in Figure 6.5. If glocality helps to see beyond their boundaries, plus suggests new ways of overcoming them as barriers to human development, then the book will have done its work.

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The measurement of multiple loyalties, multiple identities, multiple citizenship relating to cities, nations, regions, and ultimately the world, all promise to challenge the prior ways of thinking about immigration, ethno-cultural diversity, and work. Source: A. J. Marsella (1997: 43)

Souls of nations do not change Merely stretch their hidden range As rivers do not sleep Spirit of empire runs deep. Source: B. Okri (poet)