1st Edition

International Management and International Relations A Critical Perspective from Latin America

Edited By Ana Guedes, Alex Faria Copyright 2010
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Over the last few decades, the field of management enlarged its boundaries, especially in international terms, in a very rapid fashion—mainly because of the arrival of the so-called era of globalization. Many renowned scholars have criticized the universal approach given to ‘management’ in the United States and its subsequent automatic conversion into ‘international management,’ but their... Read more

Preface.  Introduction: What is International Management?  Part 1: Geography and History into International Management and International Relations  1. Neoliberal Globe/Centrism and International Management Blindness: The Indispensable Decolonial Turn  2. Regional Governance in Latin America: Institutions and Normative Discourses in the Post-Cold War Period  3. International Political Economy, Management and Governance in Latin America  Part 2: Cross-Cultural Issues: Into, Across and From Latin America  4. Managing Latin America: Historical Semantics and the Logic of Othering  5. From Latin America to the World: Notes on the (possible) Latin American Management Styles  Part 3: International Management and Governance in Latin America  6. Managerialism as Knowing and Making in Latin America: International Development Management and World Bank Intervention  7. "Dirty Management": The Legacy of Chile & Argentina  8. Green Deserts in the South of Latin America: The Role of International Agencies and National States  Part 4: Conclusions  9. Bringing the ‘International’ Into International Management: New Challenges.  Contributors.  Index

Biography

Ana Guedes, Ph.D. in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom. She is Associate Professor at the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration, Getulio Vargas Foundation (EBAPE/FGV). She is chair of the International Studies Research Group at EBAPE/FGV and has published in the fields of International Political Economy, International Business and International Management. E-mail: [email protected]

Alex Faria, Ph.D. in Business Administration, University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He is Associate Professor at the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration, Getulio Vargas Foundation and Researcher of the National Research Council in Brazil. He is chair of the Strategy & Marketing Research Group at EBAPE/FGV and has published many contributions in the fields of Strategy, Marketing, International Management and Critical Studies in Management in Brazil and abroad. E-mail: [email protected]