【2005】The Global and the Local: Understanding the Dialectics of Business Systems
Book 图书名称:The Global and the Local: Understanding the Dialectics of Business Systems
Author 作者:Arndt Sorge
Publisher 出版社: Oxford University Press
Page 页数: 320
Publishing Date 出版时间: Jun 2, 2005
Language 语言:English
Size 大小: 10.5 MB
Format 格式: pdf 文字版
ISBN: 0199205299, 9780199205295
Edition: 第1版 搜索过论坛,没有该文档
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.