From Imperialism to Globalization: Internationalization and the Management Text

Humanistic leadership: Lessons from Latin America

“…The role of the group around this dyad transforms the leader into an in-group member in the community. Third, identifying local management practices in today's organizations is challenging because of the ongoing internationalization of managerial knowledge (Alvarez, 1993), specifically the migration of management ideas through college textbooks (Mills & Hatfield, 1998), the business press that influences local Latin American managers (de Paula & Wood, 2009), and the epistemological frameworks that have been used to analyze Latin American management (Ibarra-Colado, 2006).…”

Management as a Cold War phenomenon?

“…Gemelli, 1995) there is still surprisingly little research into the impact of the Cold War on management theory and practice per se: a rare example is Bendix's (1974) study of changing work and authority relations in the United States, England, Russia and East Germany. Indeed there is some evidence that much of the social context of the Cold War is almost completely absent from US and Canadian management textbooks published in the last 50 years (Mills & Helms Hatfield, 1998), and that the socially progressive intent of certain theories has been 'written out' of modern-day presentations of management thought (Cooke, 1999).…”

“…Certainly there has been some important research on the impact of the Cold War on academia in general (Chomsky, 1997;Schrecker, 1986;Theoharis, 1974) and, on particular disciplines, including anthropology (Price, 2004) and sociology (Keen, 2004) (Nyland & Heenan, 2005), and from management theory in general (Cooke, 1999); that Cold War themes are evident in the emergence of the Academy of Management (Grant & Mills, 2006); that Lewin's work on leadership took on new meaning in the Cold War era (Mills et al, 2002), while Maslow's theories were profoundly influenced by the Cold War context in which they were written (Buss, 1979;Cooke et al, 2005); and that most of the social and political issues of the day, including discrimination, racism, trade unionism, and civil rights were almost completely absent from the management textbook (Mills & Helms Hatfield, 1998).…”

Analysis of the Role of Sport in the Management Textbook: A Study of Sports Images in Organizational Behavious Textbooks from 1992 to 2011

“…Their unreflective use has tended to compound the problem of the neglect of race, gender, ethnicity and disabilities in the North American textbook since its inception [9], and the almost total ignorance of feminist organizational theory over the past forty years [34,35].…”

“…However, as a growing number of studies have indicated, the management textbook, as a genre, tends to draw on a particular narrative style [2] that is supported by the use of examples, illustrations, case studies, and, increasingly, photographic material. In the process, such works do not simply impart knowledge (i.e., information) but "knowledge" (i.e ways of thinking) [3] that shapes our ideas of history [4]; theories [5], practice [6] and theorists [7]; the relationship between organization and society [8]; and gender, race, ethnicity and class [9].…”