Global Management: Universal Theories and Local Realities

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Global Myths that Changed the World......Page 14
The Margins......Page 20
Prehistory......Page 21
New Recipes......Page 23
Remaking the World Locally......Page 25
Critiquing the Global World of Management Theories......Page 26
Rethinking Values, Collaboration and Global Management as Political Practices......Page 27
References......Page 28
1 How the Giraffe got its Neck: an Organizational \'Just So\' Story, or Continuous Improvement and the Limits to Managerial Orthodoxy......Page 30
An Excursion through Evolutionary Theory as applied to Organizations......Page 31
The \'Total Quality\' Organization as a \'Learning Organization\'......Page 35
Concluding Remarks......Page 43
Notes......Page 45
References......Page 46
2 From Imperialism to Globalization: Internationalization and the Management Text......Page 50
The Management Text and the Cold War......Page 51
Organizational Culture and Imperialism......Page 62
Conclusion......Page 72
Notes......Page 74
References......Page 75
Appendix: Textbooks Reviewed......Page 76
Organizational Restructuring......Page 81
Playing with Fire......Page 83
The Flowering o f the Free Agent......Page 86
New Forms, Trust and Commitment......Page 88
Discussion......Page 90
References......Page 93
4 The Regulation of Poverty: the Failure in the Official Program against Poverty in Mexico – a Modern/Postmodern Approach......Page 96
Modes of Rationality, Institutional Forms and Agency......Page 98
Regime of Accumulation, Mode of Regulation and the Continuation of Poverty in Mexico......Page 99
Neo-Iiberal Anti-poverty Policy, Organizational Theory and the National Solidarity Program (Pronasol)......Page 103
Final Commentaries and Summary......Page 115
Notes......Page 118
References......Page 121
5 Post-Soviet Management: from State Dependency to Entrepreneurship?......Page 124
Russian Business Groups: Some Adjustment Processes......Page 125
On the Study of Business Groups and Entrepreneurship in PostSoviet Russia......Page 132
What Kind of Training for the Builders of \'Capitalism in One Country\'?......Page 135
References......Page 138
6 Alternative Socio-technical Systems in the Asia-Pacific Region: an International Survey of Team-based Cellular Manufacturing......Page 141
Competing Models of Cellular Manufacturing......Page 142
Cellular Manufacturing and Work Organization......Page 145
The Survey: Methods and Sample......Page 148
The Introduction of Cellular Manufacturing......Page 149
Work Organization in the Cells......Page 151
Conclusions: CM as a Tool of Control or Empowerment?......Page 154
References......Page 156
Some Theoretical and Conceptual Issues......Page 159
Frontline Management in Context......Page 161
The Research Results......Page 162
Supervisors at DM, Supervisors at DUK......Page 171
Conclusions......Page 172
References......Page 173
8 Total Quality Management in the UK Service Sector: A Social Constructivist Study......Page 176
Theoretical Controversies in the Total Quality Management Field......Page 177
Social Constructivist TOM......Page 178
The Official TOM Accounts......Page 179
Quality Initiatives......Page 181
Conclusions......Page 187
References......Page 188
Towards the Future . . .......Page 190
In the Past: the Model of Modern Management......Page 191
Lean Production: More Intelligent Organization?......Page 193
Flexible specialization......Page 197
Benchmarking the Intelligent Organization......Page 198
Knowledge-workers......Page 199
Strategies for Organization Learning......Page 202
Virtual Organizations......Page 203
Microsoft......Page 205
Intelligent Organizations, Technologies and Power......Page 209
Technology Entails Power/Knowledge......Page 211
References......Page 213
10 Metaphors and Organizational Action: Postmodernity, Language and Self-regulating Systems – a Mexican Case Study......Page 215
The Human Relations School and the Relevance of Informal Organization......Page 216
Towards a Metaphorical Approach......Page 219
The Mexican Case: an Exploratory Approach......Page 226
Concluding Remarks......Page 232
Notes......Page 233
References......Page 236
The Problem......Page 239
The Origin of the Problem (a Hint from Classical Political Philosophy)......Page 241
Relativism and Common Aims (a Further Hint from Classical Political Philosophy)......Page 243
From Conflict to Complementarity: a New Way of Thinking about Values......Page 246
Dialogue as a Solution to Value Conflict......Page 250
Concluding Thoughts......Page 252
Notes......Page 253
References......Page 256
12 Towards a Relational Theory of Organizational Collaboration......Page 259
Current Approaches to the Study of Collaboration......Page 260
Questions about Collaboration......Page 262
Discourse and Collaboration......Page 263
Concepts, Objects and Discourse......Page 264
Dynamics of Collaboration......Page 265
Issues......Page 266
Interests......Page 267
Representation......Page 269
Outcomes and Antecedents of Collaboration......Page 270
Conclusions......Page 272
References......Page 274
13 The Global Management of Professional Services: the Example of Accounting......Page 278
Characteristics of the Accounting Industry......Page 280
The Case Studies......Page 284
Summary of the Two Accounting Models......Page 296
Discussion......Page 302
References......Page 307
Index......Page 310