ABSTRACT
Global Themes and Local Variations in Organization and Management: Perspectives on Glocalization offers a broad exposition of the relations between the global and the local with regard to organizational and managerial ideas, practices, and forms. This edited volume forges ahead to capture the complexity of modern management and organization that results from the processes of glocalization.
Universality is among the core underlying principles of the management of organizations, as well as of organization and management science itself. Yet, reality reveals enormous variation across social and cultural contexts. For instance, multinational corporations must adjust their management practices to adhere to national regulation and local standards; manufacturers and service providers routinely tailor their products to suit the local preferences of consumers; and non-profit organizations amend their advocacy agenda to appeal to local sentiments. The work assembled here goes beyond merely describing such patterns of variation and adaptation in organization and management; research and commentary engage directly with the tensions between homogeneity and heterogeneity, convergence and divergence, global and local.
With contributions from leading scholars in the field of comparative organization studies, this collection offers a substantive contribution to the investigation of organization and management, as well as providing a valuable resource for students of organization studies, international business, and sociology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|36 pages
Introduction
part II|67 pages
Revisiting Glocalization
chapter 4|13 pages
Global Themes and Institutional ambiguity in the University Field
part III|96 pages
Ideas, Structures, and Practices
chapter 8|12 pages
Boomerang Diffusion at a Global Bank
chapter 9|14 pages
Rhetorical Variations in the Cross-national Diffusion of Management Practices
chapter 10|13 pages
Toward a Multi-layered Glocalization Approach
chapter 13|14 pages
Adoption and Abandonment
chapter 14|12 pages
Decoding Localization
part IV|107 pages
Actors and Influences
chapter 15|16 pages
Cosmopolitans, Harlequins, or Frankensteins?
chapter 18|16 pages
Gender in Times of Global Governance
chapter 19|14 pages
Europeanization of National administrations in the Czech republic and Poland
chapter 20|17 pages
From Historical Roots to Hybrid Identities
chapter 21|13 pages
Governance of Science in Mediatized Society
part V|101 pages
Processes and Mechanisms
chapter 22|14 pages
Micro-strategies of Contextualization
chapter 23|14 pages
Projecting the Local into the Global
chapter 27|13 pages
Subsidiary Initiative-taking in Multinational Corporations
chapter 28|14 pages
Cosmopolitanism and Banal Localism
part VI|14 pages
Concluding Remarks