Remaking Management: Between Global And Local

This page intentionally left blank Remaking Management Debates about the consequences for work practices posed by the rapidly growing transnationalisation of business have become increasingly central to management studies, sociology, political science, geography and other disciplines. Remaking Management brings together a range of international contributors from different sub-disciplines in management to examine current theories of change or continuity in relation to work practices, in the context of fashionable claims about unstoppable globalisation or immovable national business systems. It provides theoretical and empirical challenges to both of these explanations, rejecting an overemphasis on inevitable convergence and enduring divergence. The book reveals a mix of international, national and organisational influences on workplace practice, providing a rich and wide-ranging resource for graduate students and academics concerned with how organisations are responding to an increasingly complex commercial environment. CHRIS SMITH is Professor of Organisational Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. BRENDAN MCSWEENEY is Professor of Management at Royal Holloway, University of London. R O B E R T F I T Z G E R A L D is Reader in Business History and International Management at Royal Holloway, University of London. REMAKING MANAGEMENT Between Global and Local Edited by Chris Smith Brendan McSweeney Robert Fitzgerald CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521861519 © Cambridge University Press 2008 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2008 ISBN-13 978-0-511-39711-0 eBook (NetLibrary) ISBN-13 hardback 978-0-521-86151-9 Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Contents List of tables Notes on contributors 1 Remaking management: neither global nor national Brendan McSweeney, Chris Smith and Robert Fitzgerald Part I page ix xi Conceptualising International and Comparative Management 1 17 Preface: Dominan