The Global and the Local
Understanding the Dialectics of Business Systems
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 March 2005
- ISBN 9780199278909
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 241x163x22 mm
- Weight 621 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 figure, 1 table 0
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Short description:
The rhetoric of internationalization and globalization often suggests an inexorable move away from domestic cultural and institutional differences. Yet the development of internationalization within individual nations has been shaped by those very domestic institutions and cultures, as 'best practice' or other kinds of international learning have been translated into established practice and knowledge. In this important study, Arndt Sorge presents a sociological theory of the development of human societies to explain how business systems evolve and change, and how internationalization works to specify and change societal identities within nations. Examining changes in work, organization, corporate governance, and human resources, Sorge shows how this interaction is a pattern that has been followed over centuries.
MoreLong description:
'...there is... no lack of ambition in this book. And yet, unlike much of what today comes as sociology, it is fun to read, written in a way that combines the very abstract and the very concrete, the principles of general theories and the anecdotes of specific histories, in ways that are enlightening and entertaining at the same time. Those who take the book to heart will find themselves in possession of a language that can speak about 'globalization' in a non-sensationalist manner without, however, in any way detracting from its significance - in fact, quite to the contrary. They will much better and more systematically understand the lasting significance of the local in a world whose horizons of action are expanding.'
From the Foreword by Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
The rhetoric of internationalization and globalization often suggests an inexorable move away from domestic cultural and institutional differences. Yet the development of internationalization within individual nations has been shaped by those very domestic institutions and cultures, as 'best practice' or other kinds of international learning have been translated into established practice and knowledge.
In this important study, Arndt Sorge presents a sociological theory of the development of human societies to explain how business systems evolve and change, and how internationalization works to specify and change societal identities within nations. Examining changes in work, organization, corporate governance, and human resources, Sorge shows how this interaction is a pattern that has been followed over centuries. Indeed, amongst the cases Sorge presents, he concentrates on the example of Germany, a supposedly highly homogeneous and closed society, as evidence for the universality of shifting borders, expanding horizons, local adoption and adaptation of global practices, and the hybridization of systems and standards, as the normal course of social evolution.
Arndt Sorge's analysis of globalization combines rigorous theoretical reasoning with empirically-grounded analysis, and deliberately adopts a general social science approach, drawing on research from Business and Management Studies, Sociology, Political Science, and History.
The book's merits are clear. The argument is very sophisticated. Sorge covers an immense number of issues - ranging from the formation of nation-states to the meaning of history, how to understand societies, globalization, and much more - with great mastery... This is no small theoretical contribution.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Preface
Dilemmas of Internationalization
Societal Effects Between a Vacuum and a Tropical Climate
Emergent National Distinctiveness Through International Exposure
The South Germanic Bedrock Under Foreign Incursions
The Governance of Work Systems
Enterprise and Management and Corporate Governance
Making Sense of Internationalization
