Remaking Management: Between Global and Local

by Edited by Chris Smith , Brendan McSweeney , Robert Fitzgerald

• ISBN13: 9780521861519
• ISBN10: 0521861519
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Debates about the consequences for work practices posed by the rapidly growing transnationalization of business have become increasingly central to management studies, sociology, political science, geography and other disciplines. Remaking Management brings together contributors from different sub-disciplines in management to examine current theories of change or continuity of work practices in the context of fashionable claims about unstoppable globalization or unmoveable national business systems. It provides theoretical and empirical challenges to both of these explanations. A number of the chapters are based on field studies of multinational company subsidiaries in or from Britain, The Czech Republic, China, France, Germany, Japan, Turkey and elsewhere. Rejecting an overemphasis on inevitable convergence or enduring divergence, the book reveals a mix of international, national and organizational-level influences on workplace practice. This is a rich and wide-ranging resource for graduate students and academics concerned with how organizations are responding to an increasingly complex commercial environment.

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Introduction - Remaking management: neither global nor national

International and Comparative Management Theory: Preface - Dominance, diversity and the historical process in management practice

Work organisation within a dynamic globalising context: a critique of national institutional analysis of the international firm and an alternative perspective

Cultural diversity within nations

Business systems, institutions and economic development: the value of comparison and history

Systems in Transition: Preface - System as Same and Different

The post-Socialist transformation and global process: knowledge and institution building in organizational settings

The diffusion of HRM practices from the United Kingdom to China

Surviving through transplantation and cloning: the Swiss Migros hybrid, Migros-Turk Gul Berna Ozcan

Society as Open and Closed: Preface - Society and Comparative Differences Robert Fitzgerald

Capitalism and Islam: Arab business groups and capital flows in South East Asia

Challenges to the German theatrical employment system: how long established institutions respond to globalisation forces

Between the global and the national: the industrial district concept in historical and comparative context

Transnational learning and knowledge transfer: a comparative analysis of Japanese and US MNCs' overseas R&D laboratories

The Search for Global Standards: Preface - dominance, best practice and globalisation

The unravelling of manufacturing best-practice strategies

Policy transfer and institutional constraints: the diffusion of active labour market policies across Europe

Comparative management practices in international advertising agencies in the United Kingdom, Thailand and the United States of America

Corporate social responsibility in Europe: what role for organized labour?

Can 'German' become 'international'? Reactions to globalisation in two German multinational corporations

Index

Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.