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Management and Culture
Creativity, Innovation and Change -- Book 4
Publisher: The Open University, 2000 , 48 pages
ISBN: 0-7492-9515-5
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- Guide
- Aims
- Introduction
- Resources for Block 4
- Assignment
- Section 1 National Culture
- Introduction
- National Values
- Groupings of cultures
- Cultural differences in approaches to problem-solving
- Chinese and UK cultures compared
- Practical Effects of Cultural Differences
- Culture and Economic Development
- Social Capital
- Fukuyama's thesis: challenge and implications
- Section 2 Roots and Context of Management
- History of Management Ideas
- Cultural Bias in Management
- American origins of management
- Japanese and German management
- Industrial Traditions
- International Swiping
- Privatization
- Development
- Section 3 Institutions
- Habits and Institutions
- What do we mean by institutions?
- Institutional theory
- Legitimacy
- Postmodernism
- Deconstruction
- Deconstructing management concepts