The Politics of Management Knowledge

Download or read book The Politics of Management Knowledge written by Stewart R Clegg and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1996-12-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion that management knowledge is universal, culture-neutral, readily transferable to any country or situation, has come under mounting challenge. The Politics of Management Knowledge goes beyond such `broad-brush' assertions to explore in detail the relations between management knowledge, power and practice in a world where globalization highlights, rather than obscures, the locally specific character of many management recipes. The book recognizes the political nature of management knowledge as a discourse produced from, and reproducing, power processes within and between organizations. This theme underpins discussion of the ways in which management ideas and practices `produce' managers of a particular kind