International Management and International Relations: A Critical Perspective from Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780415801690 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 258 str.

Ana Guedes;Alexandre Faria

Opis

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 arguments too can fall into the trap of universalism at times. International Management and International Relations has a more specific concern: to challenge the conversion of ‘management’ into ‘international management’ from a Latin American perspective. This challenge might be taken as a first step toward the construction of a Latin American perspective in International Management (IM) and a potential contribution to the development of this field in other parts of the world.

Drawing upon critical perspectives, a major objective of this book is to show that interdisciplinary developments between the fields of International Management and International Relations (IR) are very important for the construction of a Latin America perspective in the field of IM. Why is IR is so important? A main reason is that IR has a historical focus on states and governments. A second reason is that IR recognizes, from a governance standpoint, the increasing power of transnational corporations (TNCs) and their interactions and relations with states and governments in developing countries.

The traditional IM field overlooks not only governance issues ‘managed’ by TNCs but also the interests, voices and ‘international management’ practices of other key agents in Latin America, such as governments, international organizations, transnational institutions, and public administration. International Management and International Relations is the first single volume to observe the constitution of sub-areas such as international management of international organizations, transnational institutions, public-private networks, and public companies, or international public administration and international public management with regard to their implications for Latin America.

Spis treści

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