Global ideas : how ideas, objects and practices travel in the global economy / edited by Barbara Czarniawska and Guje Sevón.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara, editor.

Sevón, Guje, editor.

Series:

Advances in organization studies.

Advances in Organization Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International economic relations--Social aspects.

International economic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Frederiksberg, Denmark : Liber : Copenhagen Business School Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Global ideas is an attempt to explain how it is possible that, although the same idea travels around the globe at a high speed, local realities are still very different. While this book can be seen as joining the discussion on globalization and its paradoxical character, it is unique in its rich collection of cases and its frame of reference consisting of a combination of organization theory, new institutionalism and sociology of translation. The focus is not so much on organizations but on organizing, which is global both in its scope and in its imitation of global models. This book shows what is travelling and how; it moves between countries and disciplines."

Contents:

Intro

Global ideas: How Ideas, Objects and Practices Travel in the Global Economy

Copyright

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Translation is a Vehicle, Imitation its Motor, and Fashion Sits at the Wheel

PART I: What Is Traveling? Names, Practices, Objects, and People

Chapter 2: Cultural Alchemy: Translating the Experience Economy into Scandinavian

Two Scenes from the Experience Economy

1.

2.

The Magic Word

Cultural Alchemy

Cloning?

Theatrical Work

Chapter 3: The Namesake: On Best Value and Other Reformmarks

The Name

The Beginning - NPM and Best Value

England: Central Control

London Borough of Harrow

Victoria: A Legitimation Project

Sweden: Sneaking in Control

The Sake of the Name

Chapter 4: Isomorphism, Isopraxism, and Isonymism: Complementary or Competing Processes?

The Studies

Quality Assurance in Health Care

The Lund model

From an idea to a law

Isomorphism or isonymism?

Accreditation of Clinical Chemical Laboratories

Accreditation in Lund

Isopraxism: imitation through copying

Chain of Care in Gothenburg

The patient's journey through the health care system

Activities in the chain of care

A model of cooperation

Isopraxism: imitation by contact

Isonymism, Isomorphism and Isopraxism: The Three Cases Compared

The origin of the ideas

Homogenizing and heterogenizing tendencies

Polymorphism and isomorphism

Translating the idea into a local practice

Three Cases, Three Ideas

Chapter 5: Lost and Found in the Translation of Strategic Plans and Websites

Artifacts and Sites

Strategic plans

Websites

Organizations studied

Translation of Strategic Plans in Organizations

When consultants plan

When organizations plan

"Living" plans vs. "dead" plans

Website Translations

Resource mobilizing websites.

Network-building websites

Program service websites

The many faces of websites

Polysemic Artifacts and Innovative Translators

Chapter 6: Environment's Many Faces: On Organizing and Translating Objects in Stockholm

Air

Water

Boundary Objects

Organizing the City

Chapter 7: From "Nature" to "Economy" and "Culture": How Stockfish Travels and Constructs an Action Net

Introducing Stockfish

First Station: Nature as a Supplier

Second Station: People and Machines Take Over

Third Station: Nature Gets to Work

Fourth Station: The Production Continues, and the Commerce Makes an Appearance

Fifth Station: Stockfish Hits the Road

Sixth Station: The Stockfish Starts Making Culture

Action Nets Lead to Networks Lead to Identities

Creating Røst

Creating Sandrigo (and its province)

Creating connections

Epilogue

On Doing Research in Complex Contexts

PART II: How Do Ideas Travel And How Do They Land?

Chapter 8: Fashion in Organizing

Fashion in Organization Studies: Moralized about, Made Mechanical and Manageable

Fashion in Cultural Theory

Fashion and the City: Three Examples

Market making and unmaking: Fast tram in Rome

Pattern recognition: IT city

Fashion's Janusian face: Radiant City 1930s/1960s/2000s

Fashion Translated Through Time and Space

Studying Fashion in Management

Chapter 9: Something New, Something Old, Something Borrowed: The Cross-National Translation of the "Family Friendly Organization" in Israel

On Fashion and Time Horizons: The Old, the New and the Vintage Product

Between Two Paradigms: Managerialism and Welfare in the spread of FFO

Something new: The managerialist paradigm

Something old: The welfare paradigm

Something borrowed? FFO in Israel

The Study

Customizing of desire and belief: FFOs in the Israeli computing industry.

Vintage FFO: Bringing in the business case and presenting the old as new

Recruiting allies: Presenting the new as old

Possible Social Consequences of FFO Translation

Chapter 10: Articulating Agendas and Traveling Principles in the Layering of New Strands of Academic Freedom in Contemporary Singapore

Assembling Singapore

Assembling the Global Schoolhouse

Academic Freedom

New Strands of Academic Freedom in Contemporary Singapore

Sights/Sites of Academic Freedom(s) in Contemporary Singapore

Chapter 11: Fields of Imitation: The Global Expansion of Management Education

Organization Fields Shape Organizational Development, But How Do They Emerge?

Organization fields

Imitation as translation

Three modes of imitation

A Global Expansion of Management Education

Broadcasting becoming a chain: European translations of U.S. models

Mediators of imitation

Shaping the field

An Analysis of Fields of Imitation

Motivation for imitation

Who imitates whom?

Conclusions: The Role of Editing in Fields of Imitation

Chapter 12: Globalizing Webs: Translation of Public Sector e-Modernization

The Formation of a Globalizing Web

Mexican state institutions

The City of Næstved

Stockholm Challenge

Globalizing Webs in Perspective

Chapter 13: Close Encounters: The Circulation and Reception of Managerial Practices in the San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Community

The Transfer of Managerial Practices

Translation at Work

The enthusiastic adopter

The converted innocent

The engaged translator

The reluctant conformer

The active resistor

Processes of Emulation and Resistance

Chapter 14: Code-Switching, or Why a Metacode Is Good to Have

One or Many Realities?

Representational vs. Performative Idiom

The Anthropological Shifts

At the Bazaar

References

About the Authors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 04, 2016).

ISBN:

87-630-0302-3

OCLC:

932340615