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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
• 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 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.