ABSTRACT
This chapter applies a critical approach of glocalization to account for the exclusion of Critical Management Studies (CMS) from Israel's formal management education industry. It presents the historical roots of management studies in Israel and the present state of the discipline, which has led to the common rejection of CMS in education system. Evolving alongside the intensification of the globalization process, Critical Management Studies have pointed to the importance of studying the process of cross-national transfer and translation of management practices and ideologies, as well as to the potential social influence of managerialism and neo-liberalization in the receiving societies. The integration of Israel into the global economy has been accompanied by a weakening of the Histadrutand its economic enterprises to the point that they have been almost entirely privatized and by the growing influence of North American based multinationals.
