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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book explores 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 Politics of Management Knowledge 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
