...Sibel Caliskan; Idil Isik Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate employee readiness for their organizations’ global change and the predictive effect of their personality and perception of change. Design/methodology/approach – Participants were from work groups that are known...

... and Dowse, 2007), the poor and the dispossessed. Hugo Gaggiotti can be contacted at: hugo.gaggiotti@uwe.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Narratives Storytelling Globalization Multinational companies From an organizational perspective, chronicles could be considered...

...Denise Faifua; Carla C.J.M. Millar; Chong Ju Choi Purpose This paper aims to analyse the concept of worker identity and the liability of foreignness caused by over‐reliance on expatriate managers and under‐reliance on local managers, and explores the implications for foreign enterprises and global...

... – that geographical distinctiveness is in large part generated by a: To focus on the local is not to isolate it from other scales. How do unions (and the “local” itself) interact with “the national” and “the global”? One set of answers lie in geographers' fascination with the third major concept to be explored...

...Josephine Chinying Lang Globalization and digitization with connectivity are fast transforming fundamental business assumptions. These two forces – more aggressive global competition and accelerating technological change, especially in information communication and Internet technologies – translate...

... recolonized and their subsistence economies decimated. Most of the employee survivors of this economic and class warfare are working longer and harder and are suffering various stress, burnout, and psychiatric symptoms. In addition to intense global competition, cheap foreign labour, and superefficient...

.... Discusses implications for OD research in international settings and global OD practices. © MCB UP Limited 1996 As businesses are becoming more global, the transfer of management technologies across cultures has received increased attention. Management research, likewise, is also subject...

...Kenneth N. Ehrensal Challenges the notion that “global competition” is at the root of the changing fortunes of large American corporations, and that it is the reason for the recent trend to downsize/rightsize/re‐engineer white‐collar staffs. Argues that the change in employment relations can...

...”, a newly‐developing discourse, is claimed by its proponents to encapsulate traditional equity issues in a more managerially compelling format. Additionally, through this new discourse, progressively addresses issues associated with managing diverse people in a global context. Argues that, in the context...

...Punya Upadhyaya A celebration of possible transformations of our radical and mainstream discourses of globalization. Begins by displacing two conventional dualizations that inform our scholarly theorizing and practice: between the global and the local and between our work and ourselves. Advocating...

...Robert S. Spich Discusses myth making and ideology in the discourse on globalization. Argues that the present globalization model of the world political economy represents more of a contemporary business ideology than a new intellectual paradigm. Reviews and critiques the roles,development...

...David S. Steingard; Dale E. Fitzgibbons Calls into question the widespread, and seemingly inevitable,globalization of Western business practices into every corner of the planet. Challenges the assumption that host countries will necessarily benefit from globalization. Stimulates critical thinking...

...Carolyn Green; Karen Ruhleder Discusses the visions of “global villages”,“borderless worlds” and “towers of Babel” which,according to the visionaries of our day, we are heading towards,enhanced by the rapid development of communications and information technologies. Explores the shortcomings...

... the rhetoric from these global ideals to the local reality of the“development project” in Russia, interpreting events as a continuing pattern of Western violence in which Americans are implicated as “missionary managers”. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Globalization International trade Politics Russia...

...Darlyne Bailey; François Héon; David Steingard Outlines a post‐modern approach to international and global development conceived during a visit to Ghana in the autumn of 1992. First offers a critique of modern development′s techno‐bureaucratic,unsustainable over‐consumption ethos and its...