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The Politics of Management Knowledge
Edited by:
- Stewart R Clegg - The University of Sydney
- Gill Palmer - University of Wollongong, Australia
December 1996 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
In recent years management knowledge has seen mounting
challenges to
the notions of objectivity, neutrality, and universality. The
Politics of Management Knowledge goes beyond broad-brush
affirmations on this theme. This insightful volume explores the
connections among management knowledge, power, and practice in a
world where globalization highlights, rather than obscures, the
localizations of generic management recipes. Central to the book
is
the recognition of management knowledge's political nature and
the
discourse produced from power processes within and between
organizations. This theme underpins the various ways that
management
practices produce managers as particular kinds of subjects for
example, man-of-enterprise, bureaucrat, heroic leader, and so
on.
Critical examinations of management theories about lean
production
and excellent entrepreneurship also highlight the myriad areas
in
which relationships between knowledge and power intermingle.
The Politics of Management Knowledge discusses the future of
management knowledge and argues that even at a time when middle
management in particular is under threat, there is a need for a
new
understanding less attuned to the corporate world of today and
more
appropriate for the emerging industries of the 21st century.
Stewart R Clegg and Gill Palmer
Introduction
PART ONE: PRODUCING MANAGERS
Paul du Gay
Making Up Managers
Klaus P Hansen
The Mentality of Management
John Child and Suzana Rodrigues
The Role of Social Identity in the International Transfer of Knowledge through Joint Ventures
PART TWO: COMPARATIVE CULTURAL RECIPES FOR MANAGEMENT
Bengt Sandkull
Lean Production
Jos[ac]e Luis Alvarez
The International Popularization of Entrepreneurial Ideas
Eduardo Ibarra-Colado
Excellence at Large
Jean-Fran[ci]cois Chanlat
From Cultural Imperialism to Independence
PART THREE: THE FUTURE FOR MANAGEMENT
Ian Palmer and Richard Dunford
Interrogating Reframing
Harvie Ramsay
Managing Sceptically
Harry Scarbrough and Gibson Burrell
The Axeman Cometh
Stewart R Clegg et al
Management Knowledge for the Future