| Description |
1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I -- Global Myths that Changed the World; 1 -- How the Giraffee got its Neck: An Organizational 'Just So' Story, or Continuous Improvement and the Limits to Managerial Orthodoxy; 2 -- From Imperialism to Globalization: Internationalization and the Management Text; 3 -- 'If You Want Loyalty Get a Dog!': Loyalty, Trust and the New Employment Contract; Part II -- Remaking the World Locally; 4 -- The Regulation of Poverty: The Failure in the Official Program Against Poverty in Mexico -- A Modern/Postmodern Approach |
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5 -- Post-Soviet Management: From State Dependency to Entrepreneurship?6 -- Alternative Socio-Technical Systems in the Asia-Pacific Region: An International Survey of Team-Based Cellular Manufacturing; 7 -- Japan in Britain, Japan in Mexico: Production Supervisory Practice in the Electronics Industry; Part III -- Critiquing the Global World of Management Theories; 8 -- Total Quality Management in the UK Service Sector: A Social Constructivist Study; 9 -- In |
| Summary |
This book re-examines management theory fter 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
International business enterprises -- Management -- Congresses
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Strategic alliances (Business) -- Congresses
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International business enterprises -- Management
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Strategic alliances (Business)
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bueno-Rodriquez, Luis
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| ISBN |
9780857029584 |
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0857029584 |
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