Global Management : Universal Theories and Local Realities

by Stewart R Clegg

• ISBN13: 9780761958147
• ISBN10: 0761958142
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-22
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

This book re-examines management theory 'after Globalization'. Combining key names and studies from across the world, it explores the local realities that resist universal theories and that permeate the daily lives of practising managers.The book provides a comprehensive and critical reflection on the widely documented phenomenon of globalization in business. It assesses the implications of the diversity of individual economies and enterprises for general theories of management and concludes by presenting new approaches to the study and research of management and organizations.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(16)
Stewart R. Clegg
Eduardo Ibarra-Colado
Luis Bueno-Rodriquez
Part 1: Global Myths that Changed the World	17	(66)
How the Giraffe Got its Neck: an Organizational 'Just So' Story, or Continuous Improvement and the Limits to Managerial Orthodoxy	17	(20)
Graham Sewell
From Imperialism to Globalization: Internationalization and the Management Text	37	(31)
Albert J. Mills
Jean Hatfield
`If You Want Loyalty Get a Dog!': Loyalty, Trust and the New Employment Contract	68	(15)
Richard Dunford
Part 2: Remaking the World Locally	83	(80)
The Regulation of Poverty: the Failure in the Official Program against Poverty in Mexico-a Modern/Postmodern Approach	83	(28)
Victor M. Soria
Post-Soviet Management: from State Dependency to Entrepreneurship?	111	(17)
Bruno Grancelli
Alternative Socio-technical Systems in the Asia-Pacific Region: an International Survey of Team-based Cellular Manufacturing	128	(18)
Paul Couchman
Richard Badham
Japan in Britain, Japan in Mexico: Production Supervisory Practice in the Electronic Industry	146	(17)
Jonathan Morris
James Lowe
Barry Wilkinson
Part 3: Critiquing the Global World of Management Theories	163	(63)
Total Quality Management in the UK Service Sector: A Social Constructivist Study	163	(14)
Mihaela Kelemen
Intelligent Organizations?	177	(25)
Stewart R. Clegg
Thomas Clarke
Metaphors and Organizational Action: Postmodernity, Language and Self-regulating Systems-a Mexican Case Study	202	(24)
Luis Montano
Part 4: Rethinking Values, Collaboration and Global Management as Political Practices	226	(71)
Antagonistic Values or Complementary Value Systems? The Chances and Limitations of Dialogue in Organizations	226	(20)
Fernando Leal
Towards a Relational Theory of Organizational Collaboration	246	(19)
Thomas B. Lawrence
Nelson Phillips
Cynthia Hardy
The Global Management of Professional Services: the Example of Accounting	265	(32)
Royston Greenwood
Teresa Rose
John L. Brown
David J. Cooper
Bob Hinings
Index	297