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Title

The politics of management knowledge / edited by Stewart R. Clegg and Gill Palmer.

Publication

London : Sage Publications, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Clegg, Stewart.
• Palmer, Gill.

Description

ix, 243 : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

• The notion that management knowledge is universal, culture-neutral, readily transferable to any country or situation, has come under mounting challenge. The Politics of Management Knowledge goes beyond such 'broad-brush' assertions to explore in detail the relations between management knowledge, power and practice in a world where globalization highlights, rather than obscures, the locally specific character of many management recipes.
• The book recognizes the political nature of management knowledge, as a discourse produced from, and reproducing, power processes within and between organizations. This theme underpins discussion of the ways in which management ideas and practices 'produce' managers of a particular kind - 'man of enterprise', bureaucrat, heroic leader.
• Critical examinations of certain current management theories - lean production, excellence, entrepreneurship - illuminate the myriad modes in which relations of power intermingle with relations of knowledge.
• Eminent authors from a variety of different countries address the social and political processes involved in cross-cultural transference of management ideas across the world. They also look to the future, stressing the need for a substantial new understanding that is less attuned to the corporate worlds of today and more appropriate for the increasingly diverse organizations likely to emerge in the twenty-first century.
• The Politics of Management Knowledge will be of interest to academics and students in organization theory, organizational behaviour and the sociology of organizations.

Subject

Comparative management

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Producing Management Knowledge / Stewart R. Clegg and Gill Palmer -- 1. Making Up Managers: Enterprise and the Ethos of Bureaucracy / Paul du Gay -- 2. The Mentality of Management: Self-Images of American Top Executives / Klaus P. Hansen -- 3. The Role of Social Identity in the International Transfer of Knowledge through Joint Ventures / John Child and Suzana Rodrigues -- 4. Lean Production: the Myth which Changes the World? / Bengt Sandkull -- 5. The International Popularization of Entrepreneurial Ideas / Jose Luis Alvarez -- 6. Excellence at Large: Power, Knowledge and Organizational Forms in Mexican Universities / Eduardo Ibarra-Colado -- 7. From Cultural Imperialism to Independence: Francophone Resistance to Anglo-American Definitions of Management Knowledge in Quebec / Jean-Francois Chanlat -- 8. Interrogating Reframing: Evaluating Metaphor-based Analyses of Organizations / Ian Palmer and Richard Dunford --
• 9. Managing Sceptically: a Critique of Organizational Fashion / Harvie Ramsay -- 10. The Axeman Cometh: the Changing Roles and Knowledges of Middle Managers / Harry Scarbrough and Gibson Burrell -- 11. Management Knowledge for the Future: Innovation, Embryos and New Paradigms / Stewart R. Clegg, Mary Barrett, Thomas Clarke, Larry Dwyer, John Gray, Sharon Kemp and Jane Marceau.

ISBN

0803979339

LCCN

96069550

OCLC

ocm35735216

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries