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Crick, Dave; Chaudhry, Shiv - In: Journal of Marketing Practice: Applied Marketing Science 3 (1997) 3, pp. 156-170

Provides empirical findings concerning the motives for exporting of UK small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in different stages of the internationalization process. Findings are based on a large scale sample of UK SMEs, and MANOVA is employed to establish that statistical differences...

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Contested communities: geo‐histories of unionism

Ellem, Bradon - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 21 (2008) 4, pp. 433-450

Purpose – Despite being increasingly touted as the kind of fundamental transformation needed for union survival, “community unionism” is typically ill‐defined and poorly explained. This paper seeks to provide greater precision of terminology and context through a series of...

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Worker identity, the liability of foreignness, the exclusion of local managers and unionism

Millar, Carla C.J.M.; Ju Choi, Chong - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 21 (2008) 4, pp. 460-470

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 organizational change....

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Official chronicles of corporate globalization and unofficial stories of international mobility

Gaggiotti, Hugo - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 23 (2010) 2, pp. 157-165

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse contradictions, similarities, and differences between official corporate chronicles and individual stories of international managers of a multinational company. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis was made following methodological and...

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Post‐modern International De‐velopment: Intervelopment and Global Interbeing

Bailey, Darlyne; Héon, François; Steingard, David - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 6 (1993) 3, pp. 43-63

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 accompanying practices of Western expert...

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Globalization folklore problems of myth and ideology in the discourse on globalization

Spich, Robert S. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 8 (1995) 4, pp. 6-29

Discusses myth making and ideology in the discourse on globalization. Argues that the present globalization model of … discussion of globalization issues in the literature. …

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Challenging the juggernaut of globalization

Steingard, David S.; Fitzgibbons, Dale E. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 8 (1995) 4, pp. 30-54

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 and reflection about globalization′s origins, cultural sensitivity, fairness, sources of power and future …

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Global ideals, local realities: the development project and missionary management in Russia

Walck, Christa L. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 8 (1995) 4, pp. 69-84

Since the break‐up of the Soviet Union, the Western media and Western academics have used the benign rhetorical frames of “democratization”, “privatization”, “transition to a market economy” and “the management revolution” to explain events in post‐Soviet Russia. Reframes the...

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Discourses of global competition

Ehrensal, Kenneth N. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 8 (1995) 5, pp. 5-16

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 be explained...

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Equal employment opportunity and the management of diversity

Humphries, Maria; Grice, Shayne - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 8 (1995) 5, pp. 17-32

Persistent patterns of employment segregation have long been challenged through what is here called “the discourse of equity”. Associated equity legislation and equal employment policies have not succeeded in changing these patterns. “The management of diversity”, a newly‐developing...

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