International management and international relations : a critical perspective from Latin America / / edited by Ana Guedes and Alex Faria

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459378403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-136-98976-5; 1-136-98977-3; 1-282-58678-5; 9786612586781; 0-203-85432-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in management, organizations, and society ; ; 8
• Altri autori (Persone): FariaAlex <1963->; GuedesAna <1964->
• Disciplina: 658/.049098
• Soggetti: Management - Latin America; Management; International business enterprises - Latin America; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables and Figures; Preface; Introduction: What Is International Management?; Part I Geography and History into International Management and International Relations; 1 Neoliberal Globe/centrism and International Management Blindness: The Indispensable Decolonial Turn; 2 Regional Governance in Latin America: Institutions and Normative Discourses in the Post-Cold War Period; 3 International Political Economy, Management and Governance in Latin America; Part II Cross-Cultural Issues: Into, Across and From Latin America; 4 Managing Latin America: Historical Semantics and the Logic of Othering5 From Latin America to the World: Notes on the (Possible) Latin American Management Styles; Part III International Management and Governance in Latin America; 6 Managerialism as Knowing and Making in Latin America: International Development Management and World Bank Interventions; 7 'Dirty Management': The Legacy of Chile ; and Argentina; 8 Green Deserts in the South of Latin America: The Role of International Agencies and National States; Part IV Conclusions; 9 Bringing the 'International' into International Management: New ChallengesContributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Over the last few decades, the field of management enlarged its boundaries, especially in international terms, in a very rapid fashion-mainly because of the arrival of the so-called era of globalization. Many renowned scholars have criticized the universal approach given to 'management' in the United States and its subsequent automatic conversion into 'international management,' but their arguments too can fall into the trap of universalism at times. This book has a more specific concern: to challenge the conversion of 'management' into 'international management' from a Latin American persp