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Global Comparative Management
A Functional Approach
- Ralph B. Edfelt - San Jose State University, USA
April 2009 | 360 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
The first current comprehensive treatment of comparative management available in a single-authored package, Global Comparative Management: A Functional Approach offers an interdisciplinary discussion of management functions, practices, patterns, and problems relating to a wide variety of national and regional settings. Author Ralph Edfelt places management concepts into temporal and contextual perspective, gives broad overviews of management theory, and describes global macroenvironmental trends. Readers will gain the knowledge and insight necessary for becoming effective managers, employees, and citizens in today's increasingly interdependent world.
Global Comparative Management covers the United States, Latin America, Western Europe, Japan, and East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea). Each chapter includes a management section that focuses on region-specific topics, such as the managerial functions of planning, controlling, organizing, directing, and staffing in that region; CEO backgrounds, career paths, and pay scales; and higher-management education.
Key Features
Global Comparative Management covers the United States, Latin America, Western Europe, Japan, and East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea). Each chapter includes a management section that focuses on region-specific topics, such as the managerial functions of planning, controlling, organizing, directing, and staffing in that region; CEO backgrounds, career paths, and pay scales; and higher-management education.
Key Features
- Broadens readers' worldviews through discussions of global contexts and experiences
- Synthesizes information from many sources, including academic research and contributions by practicing managers, consultants, and other professionals
- Explores two special topics: management-by-democracy (transcending several countries, regions, and eras) and management in a state-socialist system (the former Soviet Union), noting implications for contemporary capitalist settings
- Defines current cultural, economic, and political terminology
- Includes pertinent case studies and exercises, lists of terms and concepts, and study questions
1. Management; A Conceptual and Contextual Overview
2. American (U.S.) Management
3. West European Management
4. Soviet Socialist Management
5. Management-By-Democracy; The Employee-Controlled Organization
6. The Legacy of China
7. Japanese Management; Tradition and Transition
8. Management in Latin America
9. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Solid chapter on Management theory conceptual and contextual review, outstanding review for MBAs and specialized Grad Programs, solid recap and intro for upper level undergraduates, good work on the US portion, good balance b/t regions, nice charts and research, comparative points well stated, easy to understand, yet profound in the messages disseminated for future reference and for a more inclusive, balanced, and interdependent world of management in the 21st Century.
Management Dept, St Louis University
December 21, 2010
It was really good to break down management issues across different regions (it's very difficult to find such a book), and it's not heally academic and research-oriented. BUT half of each of the chapter covers GENERAL economic and policial environments of each region. It would have been much better if more space can be devoted to leadership and managerial issues in each region.
Business Administration , City University of Hong Kong
December 10, 2009