Global Management or Growing Your Business Globally

Global Management: Universal Theories and Local Realities

Author: Eduardo Ibarra

This book re-examines management theory 'after Globalization'. Combining key names and studies from across the world, it explores the local realities that resist universal theories and that permeate the daily lives of practising managers.

The book provides a comprehensive and critical reflection on the widely documented phenomenon of globalization in business. It assesses the implications of the diversity of individual economies and enterprises for general theories of management and concludes by presenting new approaches to the study and research of management and organizations.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - Stewart R Clegg, Eduardo Ibarra-Colado and Luis Bueno-Rodriquez PART ONE: GLOBAL MYTHS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD How the Giraffe Got its Neck - Graham Sewell
An Organizational 'Just So' Story or, Continuous Improvement and the Limits to Managerial Orthodoxy From Imperialism to Globalization - Albert J Mills and Jean Hatfield
Internationalization and the Management Text
'If You Want Loyalty Get a Dog!' - Richard Dunford
Loyalty, Trust and the New Employment Contract PART TWO: REMAKING THE WORLD LOCALLY The Regulation of Poverty - Victor M Soria
The Failure in the Official Program against Poverty in Mexico-a Modern//Postmodern Approach Post-Soviet Management - Bruno Grancelli
From State Dependency to Entrepreneurship?
Alternative Socio-Technical Systems in the Asia-Pacific Region - Richard Badham and Paul Couchman
An International Survey of Team-Based Cellular Manufacturing Japan in Britain, Japan in Mexico - James Lowe, Jonathan Morris and Barry Wilkinson
Production Supervisory Practice in the Electronics Industry PART THREE: CRITIQUING THE GLOBAL WORLD OF MANAGEMENT THEORIES Total Quality Management in the UK Service Sector - Mihaela Kelemen
A Social Constructivist Study Intelligent Organizations? - Stewart Clegg and Thomas Clarke Metaphors and Organizational Action - Luis Montano
Postmodernity, Language and Self-Regulating Systems- A Mexican Case Study PART FOUR: RETHINKING VALUES, COLLABORATION AND GLOBAL MANAGEMENT AS POLITICAL PRACTICES Antagonistic Values or Complementary Value Systems? The Chances and Limitations of Dialogue in Organizations - Fernando Leal Towards a Relational Theory ofOrganizational Collaboration - Thomas B Lawrence, Nelson Phillips and Cynthia Hardy The Global Management of Professional Services - Royston Greenwood et al
The Example of Accounting

Look this: The Green Building Revolution or The City Reader

Growing Your Business Globally

Author: Robert A Taft

Providing insightful instruction, practical guidelines, samples of actual documents, and examples from real companies, this book provides a thorough and valuable resource to anyone interested in expanding internationally. Taft takes the reader step-by-step from company assessment of export readiness through the strategic export process. It also discusses international business operations, looking at the best practices of companies in these operations. The reader then uses this information to develop a business plan and venturer?s agreement for an international joint venture. The culmination is a negotiation between two companies from different countries to develop a single international joint venture.