Remaking Management: Between Global and Local

Cambridge University Press, 5/8/2008
EAN 9780521861519, ISBN10: 0521861519

Hardcover, 488 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 2.7 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

Debates about the consequences for work practices posed by the rapidly growing transnationalisation of business have become increasingly central to management studies, sociology, political science, geography and other disciplines. Remaking Management brings together a range of international 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 globalisation or unmoveable national business systems. It provides theoretical and empirical challenges to both of these explanations. Rejecting an overemphasis on inevitable convergence or enduring divergence, the book reveals a mix of international, national and organisational-level influences on workplace practice. This is a rich and wide-ranging resource for graduate students and academics concerned with how organisations are responding to an increasingly complex commercial environment.

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List of contributors
1. Introduction - Remaking management
neither global nor national Brendan McSweeney, Chris Smith and Robert Fitzgerald
Part I. International and Comparative Management Theory
Preface - Dominance, diversity and the historical process in management practice Chris Smith, Brendan McSweeney and Robert Fitzgerald
2. Work organisation within a dynamic globalising context
a critique of national institutional analysis of the international firm and an alternative perspective Chris Smith
3. Cultural diversity within nations Brendan McSweeney
4. Business systems, institutions and economic development
the value of comparison and history Robert Fitzgerald
Part II. Systems in Transition
Preface - System as Same and Different Brendan McSweeney
5. The post-Socialist transformation and global process
knowledge and institution building in organisational settings Ed Clark
6. The diffusion of HRM practices from the United Kingdom to China Jos Gamble
7. Surviving through transplantation and cloning
the Swiss Migros hybrid, Migros-Türk Gul Berna Ozcan
Part III. Society as Open and Closed
Preface - Society and Comparative Differences Robert Fitzgerald
8. Capitalism and Islam
Arab business groups and capital flows in South East Asia Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown
9. Challenges to the German theatrical employment system
how long established institutions respond to globalisation forces Axel Haunschild
10. Between the global and the national
the industrial district concept in historical and comparative context Andy Popp
11. Transnational learning and knowledge transfer
a comparative analysis of Japanese and US MNCs' overseas R&D laboratories Alice Lam
Part IV. The Search for Global Standards
Preface - dominance, best practice and globalisation Chris Smith
12. The unravelling of manufacturing best-practice strategies Alan Pilkington
13. Policy transfer and institutional constraints
the diffusion of active labour market policies across Europe Michael Gold
14. Comparative management practices in international advertising agencies in the United Kingdom, Thailand and the United States of America Chris Hackley and Amy Rungpaka Tiwsakul
15. Corporate social responsibility in Europe
what role for organised labour? Axel Haunschild, Dirk Matten and Lutz Preuss
16. Can 'German' become 'international'? Reactions to globalisation in two German multinational corporations Fiona Moore
Index.

Review of the hardback: 'There are two very good reasons why, for all those interested in organisational change and the varieties of capitalism, this is a must buy. Firstly, it demonstrates the usefulness of a multi-level framework in which globalisation, varieties of capitalism and agency at the level of the organisation all matter. Secondly, by focusing on change at the company and workplace level, it provides much needed and up-to-date case studies to inform our teaching and research.' Jill Rubery, FBA, Professor of Comparative Employment Systems and Co-director of the European Work and Employment Research Centre, Manchester