The politics of management knowledge / edited by Stewart R. Clegg and Gill Palmer.

Other author Clegg, Stewart R., 1947-
Other author Palmer, Gill.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Sage Publications, 1996.
Descriptionix, 243 : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Comparative management.

Contents Introduction. Producing management knowledge / Stewart R. Clegg and Gill Palmer -- Part One. Producing managers. Making up managers: enterprise and the ethos of bureaucracy / Paul du Gay -- The Mentality of management: self-images of American top exectives / Klaus P. Hansen -- The Role of social identity in the international transfer of knowledge through joint ventures / John Child and Suzanna Rodrigues -- Part Two. Comparative cultural recipes for management. Lean production: the myth which changes the world? / Bengt Sandkull -- The International of entrepreneurial ideas / José Luis ALvarez -- Excellence at large: power, knowledge and organizational forms in Mexican universities / Eduardo Ibarra-Colado -- From cultural imperialism to independence: francophone resistance to Anglo-American definitions of management knowedlge in Québec / Jean-François Chanlat -- Part Three. The Future for management. Interrogating reframing: evaluating metaphor-based analyses of organizations / Ian Palmer and Richard Dunford -- Managing sceptically: a critique of organizational fashion / Harvie Ramsay -- The Axeman cometh: the changing roles and knowledges of middle managers / Harry Scarbrough and Gibson Burrell -- Management knowledge for the future: innovation, embryos and new paradigms / Stwart R. Clegg [et al.]
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96069550
ISBN0803979339