Remaking management: between global and local
Conceptualising international and comparative management. Preface : Dominance, diversity and the historical process in management practice / Chris Smith, Brendan McSweeney and Robert Fitzgerald ; Work organisation within a dynamic globalising context : a critique of national institutional analysis of the international firm and an alternative perspective / Chris Smith ; Cultural diversity within nations / Brendan McSweeney ; Business systems, institutions and economic development : the value of comparison and history / Robert Fitzgerald -- Systems in transition. Preface : System as same and different / Brendan McSweeney ; The post-socialist transformation and global process : knowledge and institution building in organisational settings / Ed Clark ; The diffusion of HRM practices from the United Kingdom to China / Jos Gamble ; Surviving through transplantation and cloning : the Swiss Migros hybrid, Migros-Türk / Gül Berna Özcan -- Society as open and closed. Preface : Society and comparative differences / Robert Fitzgerald ; Capitalism and Islam : Arab business groups and capital flows in south-east Asia / Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown ; Challenges to the German theatrical employment system : how long-established institutions respond to globalisation forces / Axel Haunschild ; Between the global and the national : the industrial district concept in historical and comparative context / Andrew Popp ; Transnational learning and knowledge transfer : a comparative analysis of Japanese and US MNCs' overseas R & D laboratories / Alice Lam -- The search for global standards. Preface : Dominance, best practice and globalisation / Chris Smith ; The unravelling of manufacturing best-practice strategies / Alan Pilkington ; Policy transfer and institutional constraints : the diffusion of active labour market policies across Europe / Michael Gold ; Comparative management practices in international advertising agencies in the United Kingdom, Thailand and the United States / Chris Hackley and Amy Rungpaka Tiwsakul ; Corporate social responsibility in Europe : what role for organised labour? / Axel Haunschild, Dirk Matten and Lutz Preuss ; Can 'German' become 'international'? Reactions to globalisation in two German MNCs / Fiona Moore.