The Politics of Management Knowledge

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-8039-7934-5
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

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 - person of enterprise, bureaucrat, heroic leader and so on. 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 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clegg, Stewart R.

Palmer, Gill

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Stewart R Clegg and Gill Palmer
Producing Management Knowledge
PART ONE: PRODUCING MANAGERS
Making Up Managers - Paul du Gay
Enterprise and the Ethos of Bureaucracy
The Mentality of Management - Klaus P Hansen
Self-Images of American Top Executives
The Role of Social Identity in the International Transfer of Knowledge through Joint Ventures - John Child and Suzana Rodrigues
PART TWO: COMPARATIVE CULTURAL RECIPES FOR MANAGEMENT
Lean Production - Bengt Sandkull
The Myth which Changes the World?
The International Popularization of Entrepreneurial Ideas - Jos[ac]e Luis Alvarez
Excellence at Large - Eduardo Ibarra-Colado
Power, Knowledge and Organizational Forms in Mexican Universities
From Cultural Imperialism to Independence - Jean-Fran[ci]cois Chanlat
Francophone Resistance to Anglo-American Definitions of Management Knowledge in Qu[ac]ebec
PART THREE: THE FUTURE FOR MANAGEMENT
Interrogating Reframing - Ian Palmer and Richard Dunford
Evaluating Metaphor-Based Analyses of Organizations
Managing Sceptically - Harvie Ramsay
A Critique of Organizational Fashion
The Axeman Cometh - Harry Scarbrough and Gibson Burrell
The Changing Roles and Knowledges of Middle Managers
Management Knowledge for the Future - Stewart R Clegg et al
Innovation, Embryos and New Paradigms

Über Autor(innen)

Clegg, Stewart R.
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.