The Politics of Management Knowledge - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803979347 ISBN 13: 9780803979345

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

The notion that management knowledge is universal, culture-neutral, readily transferable to any country or situation, has come under mounting challenge. The Politics of Management Knowledge goes beyond such `broad-brush′ assertions to explore 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 book 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.

Eminent authors from a variety of countries address the social and political processes involved in cross-cultural transference of management ideas across the world. They also look to the future, stressing the need for a substantial new understanding that is less attuned to the corporate worlds of today and more appropriate for the increasingly diverse organizations likely to emerge in the twenty-first century.

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About the Author

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. 

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803979347
• ISBN 13: 9780803979345
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Clegg Stewart R., Palmer Gill