ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the ideas presented and delineated the key issues that have received attention in current research in the field and some of the knowledge gaps that remain to be filled. It also seeks to discuss how the existing knowledge may profitably be harnessed to push the field forward. The radical structuralist paradigm assumes that structures, or social formations, contain contradictory and antagonistic relationships within them. This generates crises and acts as seeds of instability in organizations and societies. A global mindset research that adopts this perspective will focus attention on the imposition of a specific mode of thinking by executives on individual employees and the alienation of the individual within the organizational structures. They will also emphasize the manner in which these 'imposed sense-making structures' constrain individual creativity and accomplishment. From an operational perspective, the extant literature is replete with the observations that global organizations strive to achieve behavioral consistency across their affiliates.
