The Politics of Management Knowledge Paperback / softback
Edited by Stewart R Clegg, Gill Palmer
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd
- Publication Date:16/09/1996
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- ISBN:9780803979345
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd
- Publication Date:16/09/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780803979345