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.
Stewart Clegg is Professor at the University of Sydney in the School of Project Management and the John Grill Institute for Project Leadership and an Emeritus Professor of the University of Technology Sydney.
Introduction - Stewart R Clegg, Eduardo Ibarra-Colado and Luis Bueno-Rodriquez PART ONE: GLOBAL MYTHS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD How the Giraffe Got its Neck - Graham Sewell An Organizational `Just So' Story or, Continuous Improvement and the Limits to Managerial Orthodoxy From Imperialism to Globalization - Albert J Mills and Jean Hatfield Internationalization and the Management Text `If You Want Loyalty Get a Dog!' - Richard Dunford Loyalty, Trust and the New Employment Contract PART TWO: REMAKING THE WORLD LOCALLY The Regulation of Poverty - Victor M Soria The Failure in the Official Program against Poverty in Mexico-a Modern/Postmodern Approach Post-Soviet Management - Bruno Grancelli From State Dependency to Entrepreneurship? Alternative Socio-Technical Systems in the Asia-Pacific Region - Richard Badham and Paul Couchman An International Survey of Team-Based Cellular Manufacturing Japan in Britain, Japan in Mexico - James Lowe, Jonathan Morris and Barry Wilkinson Production Supervisory Practice in the Electronics Industry PART THREE: CRITIQUING THE GLOBAL WORLD OF MANAGEMENT THEORIES Total Quality Management in the UK Service Sector - Mihaela Kelemen A Social Constructivist Study Intelligent Organizations? - Stewart Clegg and Thomas Clarke Metaphors and Organizational Action - Luis Montano Postmodernity, Language and Self-Regulating Systems- A Mexican Case Study PART FOUR: RETHINKING VALUES, COLLABORATION AND GLOBAL MANAGEMENT AS POLITICAL PRACTICES Antagonistic Values or Complementary Value Systems? The Chances and Limitations of Dialogue in Organizations - Fernando Leal Towards a Relational Theory of Organizational Collaboration - Thomas B Lawrence, Nelson Phillips and Cynthia Hardy The Global Management of Professional Services - Royston Greenwood et al The Example of Accounting
