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In recent years management knowledge has seen mountingchallenges tothe notions of objectivity, neutrality, and universality. ThePolitics of Management Knowledge goes beyond broad-brushaffirmations on this theme. This insightful volume explores theconnections among management knowledge, power, and practice in aworld where globalization highlights, rather than obscures, thelocalizations of generic management recipes. Central to the bookisthe recognition of management knowledge′s political nature andthediscourse produced from power processes within and betweenorganizations. This theme underpins the various ways thatmanagementpractices produce managers as particular kinds of subjects forexample, man-of-enterprise, bureaucrat, heroic leader, and soon.Critical examinations of management theories about leanproductionand excellent entrepreneurship also highlight the myriad areasinwhich relationships between knowledge and power intermingle.The Politics of Management Knowledge discusses the future ofmanagement knowledge and argues that even at a time when middlemanagement in particular is under threat, there is a need for anewunderstanding less attuned to the corporate world of today andmoreappropriate for the emerging industries of the 21st century.

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• Introduction
• Producing Management Knowledge
• Part 1 Producing Managers
• Making Up Managers
• Enterprise and the Ethos of Bureaucracy
• The Mentality of Management
• Self-Images of American Top Executives
• The Role of Social Identity in the International Transfer of Knowledge through Joint Ventures
• Part 2 Comparative Cultural Recipes for Management
• Lean Production
• The Myth which Changes the World?
• The International Popularization of Entrepreneurial Ideas
• Excellence at Large
• Power, Knowledge and Organizational Forms in Mexican Universities
• From Cultural Imperialism to Independence
• Francophone Resistance to Anglo-American Definitions of Management Knowledge in Qu[ac]ebec
• Part 3 The Future for Management
• Interrogating Reframing
• Evaluating Metaphor-Based Analyses of Organizations
• Managing Sceptically
• A Critique of Organizational Fashion
• The Axeman Cometh
• The Changing Roles and Knowledges of Middle Managers
• Management Knowledge for the Future
• Innovation, Embryos and New Paradigms

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Stewart Clegg is Foundation Professor in Management at the University of Western Sydney Macarthur, Australia. His publications include Frameworks of Power (SAGE, 1989) and Modern Organizations (SAGE, 1990). He is co-editor of the Handbook of Organization Studies (SAGE, 1996).

Gill Palmer is Dean of the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her publications include Employment Relations (with Margaret Gardner, 1992), British Industrial Relations (with Howard Gospel, 1993) and Quality Management (with Patrick Dawson, 1995).