A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Globalization (Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books) - Hardcover

McCann, Leo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 147391910X ISBN 13: 9781473919105

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

In Globalization, the author explores the various intermingled aspects that make up the processes and controversies of globalization; he discusses the history and rise of the concept, sceptical and critical ideas about it, the debates around a global culture, and the implications of globalization for work, business, management and organizations.

Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap’ series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.

Suitable for students of international business and anybody interested in the concept of globalization.

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About this title

About the Author:

Leo McCann is Professor of Organisation Studies at Manchester Business School. His research and teaching focuses on the impacts of large-scale economic change on work and organization across numerous countries. He has written many articles on the subject of the international transformation of white-collar work in journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, and Organization Studies. He is the co-author of Managing in the Modern Corporation(Cambridge University Press, 2009), a major empirical study into the restructuring of white-collar work in the UK, USA and Japan. His research draws on the paradigms of sociology of work, varieties of capitalism, and political economy, exploring how large-scale ‘global’ transformations are translated through national institutional structures with often profound effects on the everyday lives of organizations, managers, workers and citizens. He is also the author of International and Comparative Business: Foundations of Political Economies (Sage Publications, 2014), a textbook based on over a decade of experience teaching and researching comparative capitalism, globalization, and the restructuring of organizations and work.

Review:

Leo McCann has managed to produce an accessible, entertaining, informative text on globalization that is infused with both scholarly heft and a healthy analytical distance, successfully navigating the treacherous divide between laudatory apologia and criticism for its own sake. This is a valuable resource for teachers, academics, and interested publics of all stripes.

Author: Stephanie L. Mudge

This book makes a beneficial introduction to a field of literature...after deconstructing the myth and hype of globalization McCann proceeds with critically examining the fields in which the concept has been most commonly drawn upon. Culture, economics and politics receive attention, focusing both on the most positive and most negative interpretations of globalization processes in these fields.

For the Organization Studies reader, the most interesting chapter [is] the chapter on global organizations. It is here that McCann’s vast knowledge on the topic of globalization is most strongly manifested.

Author: Adrienne Sörbom

Highly recommended as a compact, wide-ranging, fast-paced and highly accessible guide to 30 years of globalisation debates.
Author: Jan Aart Scholte

I picked up this book and haven′t been able to stop reading it - an amazing companion book. Author: 2nd Year Student, BA Modern Languages and Business & Management

I can highly recommend this accessible and informed book written by the inimitable Professor Leo McCann
Author: Tim Moffatt & Alwin Evans, Source: Radioactive Reading Group Published On: 2019-01-17

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 147391910X
• ISBN 13: 9781473919105
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160