Notes on Contributors

Preface

Introduction

Stewart R. Clegg

Eduardo Ibarra-Colado

Luis Bueno-Rodriquez

Part 1: Global Myths that Changed the World

How the Giraffe Got its Neck: an Organizational 'Just So' Story, or Continuous Improvement and the Limits to Managerial Orthodoxy

Graham Sewell

From Imperialism to Globalization: Internationalization and the Management Text

Albert J. Mills

Jean Hatfield

`If You Want Loyalty Get a Dog!': Loyalty, Trust and the New Employment Contract

Richard Dunford

Part 2: Remaking the World Locally

The Regulation of Poverty: the Failure in the Official Program against Poverty in Mexico-a Modern/Postmodern Approach

Victor M. Soria

Post-Soviet Management: from State Dependency to Entrepreneurship?

Bruno Grancelli

Alternative Socio-technical Systems in the Asia-Pacific Region: an International Survey of Team-based Cellular Manufacturing

Paul Couchman

Richard Badham

Japan in Britain, Japan in Mexico: Production Supervisory Practice in the Electronic Industry

Jonathan Morris

James Lowe

Barry Wilkinson

Part 3: Critiquing the Global World of Management Theories

Total Quality Management in the UK Service Sector: A Social Constructivist Study

Mihaela Kelemen

Intelligent Organizations?

Stewart R. Clegg

Thomas Clarke

Metaphors and Organizational Action: Postmodernity, Language and Self-regulating Systems-a Mexican Case Study

Luis Montano

Part 4: 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 of Organizational Collaboration

Thomas B. Lawrence

Nelson Phillips

Cynthia Hardy

The Global Management of Professional Services: the Example of Accounting

Royston Greenwood

Teresa Rose

John L. Brown

David J. Cooper

Bob Hinings

Index