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Politics of Management Knowledge by Stewart Clegg & Gill Palmer
This volume explores in detail the relations between management knowledge, power and practice in a world where globalization highlights, rather than obscures, the locally specific nature of many management recipes. Current management theories are examined in the discussion.The notion that management knowledge is universal, culture-neutral, readily transferable to any country or situation, has come under mounting challenge. In this vein, this volume explores in detail the relations between management knowledge, power and practice in a world where globalization highlights, rather than obscures, the locally specific nature of many management recipes. This volume 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. 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 understanding that is less attuned to the corporate worlds of today and more appropriate for the increasingly diverse organizations likely to emerge in the 21st century. |
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| Author(s) : Stewart Clegg | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0803979347 | ISBN-13 : 9780803979345 |
| RRP : £22.99 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 16/09/1996
Publisher : SAGE Publications Ltd
Page Length : 256mm
Page Size : 234mm