The politics of management knowledge

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The politics of management knowledge

edited by Stewart R. Clegg and Gill Palmer

SAGE Publications, 1996

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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.

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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

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