Globalization Management Control and Ideology

Economic well-being is a necessary but partial condition for the good life. Discourses of globalization promise economic prosperity, yet remain rather silent about non-economic aspects of the good life. This produces some tension. People must find ways to assimilate the economic promise of global systems into the local values, activities and institutions that direct the quest for the good life for them. A blind superimposition of global processes on local polities creates severe threats to the economic, social, cultural and moral identities of local communities.

The essays in this book include a wide range of interdisciplinary contributions that can help us understand this conflict in a way which affirms possibilities for a prudent assimilation of global processes into local cultures. Such understanding may affirm the promise that Adam Smith offered - that economic prosperity might find itself embedded in more profound moral horizons and possibilities for living well.

Contents:
- Editors' Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Globalization, Management Control and Ideology by Riad Ajami, C. Edward Arrington, Falconer Mitchell and Hanne Nørreklit

Part One Systems of Modernity and Local Ideology
- 2. Jeremiah, Bill Gates, and American Ideology by C. Edward Arrington
- 3. American "Fair Contract" and Danish tradition: Problems of Conflicting Ideologies by Hanne Nørreklit, Preben Melander and Lennart Nørreklit
- 4. When a Totalitarian Ideology Prevails: Exploring the Relations of Fascist "Corporate Economy" and Business Studies in Italy in the Thirties by Lino Cinquini
- 5. Western Ideology and Management: An Oriental Detour by Yvon Pesqueux, Dang Pham Huy and Fabien de Geuser
- 6. Contracts and the Dynamics of Exchange Relationships by Rajesh Kumar
- 7. Global Financial Markets and Indigenous Financial Systems: The Emerging Fault Lines by Riad Ajami

Part Two Ideology of Modernity and Management Control
- 8. Ideology and Local Management Practice and Discourse: A Framework by Annick Bourguignon
- 9. Are They Really Too Simple? Management Control Systems Face the Ideology of Complexity by Michel Fiol and Fabien de Geuser
- 10. Late-modern Politics and the Ubiquity of Accounting: The Expansion of New Public Management within the US Public Sector by Ann L. Watkins and C. Edward Arrington
- 11. Ideology and the UK Management Accounting Profession by Falconer Mitchell
- 12. "Truly Impartial, Truly Serving The Public": Anglo-American Influences and Ideology in the Development of Auditing in Germany by Lisa Evans

Part Three Postmodern Trajectories: From Control to Therapy
- 13. Ideology at Work: Using Language to Reconstruct Workplace Realities by Inger Askehave
- 14. The Ideology of Management Coaching by Anne Ellerup Nielsen and Hanne Nørreklit

Part Four Towards Cosmopolitan Reconciliation of Control and Ideology
- 15. The Validity of Ideological Globalization by Lennart Nørreklit
- About the authors