THIs chapter discusses some approaches to globalization that contribute to a critical management studies (CMS) agenda. The vast majority of the literature in management and organization theory takes an inveterately mainstream approach to globalization and lacks a critical perspective. Articles...

Much of the Knowledge Management (KM) literature assumes that all relevantknowledge can be represented as information and 'managed'. But the meaning of informationis always context-specific and open to subsequent reinierpretation. Moving over time or betweencontexts affords scope for new...

As a result of changing conditions of funding, emanating in a sense of crisisabout viability and the need to find new sources of revenue, many universities inAustralia and elsewhere are moving into new areas of application in novel partnershipswith corporate organizations, to deliver 'work-based...

Current advances in information technology and, in particular, compteer-aided design / computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) and enterprise resources planning (ERP)systems have led organizations to undetake significant investments in these systems. Nextgeneration manufacturers require both...

Trust, rather than being simply a resource for establishing collaborative relationships between organizations,is an essential component of their constitution. At base, trust involves interpersonal relations of a specifictype. These are relations where there is sufficient probability that a...

Most contemporary total quality management (TQM) practice is influenced, directly or indirectly, bystructured, acontextual and standardized quality models. The present paper focuses on the strategicintroduction of one such model, namely the Swedish Institute for Quality (SIQ) model for...

In this paper we consider the accounts of post-war Japan's economic development in terms of aconsideration of the argument from 'embeddedness'. We note the dangers implicit in approaches that tend to profferover-socialized accounts of action and stress the importance of institutionally and...

Purpose - This paper addresses the reasons why Chinese businesses have long been identified assubordinate to world-class brand owners; why "global" own brand developments are considered to bebeyond their competence.Design/methodology/approach - In this paper, we use an institutional perspective...

The concept of governmentality was developed by Michel Foucault to address thespecificity of contemporary neo-liberal forms of governance - premised on theactive consent and subjugation of subjects, rather than their oppression, dominationor external control. These nco-liberal forms of...

Since the time of the earliest civilisations trade across frontiers and regions has occurred but it was only at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century that significant transnational activity emerged. The primary casualties of globalization appear to be low skilled...