Global Themes and Local Variations in Organization and Management: Perspectives on Glocalization

These twenty-nine comparative organization studies are aimed at students and interested others in organization studies, international business, and sociology. Topics include dimensions and themes of ＂glocalization,＂ the travel of the organization, ambiguity in the university, local storytelling, re-localization as tool and a source of legitimacy, managerial rhetorical variations, adoption and abandonment of global diffusion and local variation, a comparison of two transnational life insurance companies, personal rules in Asian family-controlled business groups, violence and sex in Peru, assessing the extent of institutional change, projecting the local into the global, managing money laundering, domestication of global trends, and global rationalization in locally-empowered actors. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)