ABSTRACT
As we stride across the threshold of the new millennium, many of us will find just cause to contemplate the world that lies ahead. A new millennium offers us all the chance to wonder and even dream how things may be different in the future – what changes may lie in store for the way we live and work; what new technologies may shape our lives. If we look just into our recent past, there is evidence that the scope and speed of change can be dramatic. Social and economic consequences of globalisation, for instance, have shown us how an increasingly interdependent world produces common problems and concerns that demand new forms of international management and new types of organisations. Developments, not least with the Internet, demonstrate how new technologies can spring, seemingly from nowhere, with pervasive consequences.
