Eduardo Ibarra Colado & Luis Bueno-Rodriquez 
Global Management 
Universal Theories and Local Realities

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.

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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

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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.