Title: The global and the local : understanding the dialectics of business systems /
Authors: Sorge, Arndt.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Acculturation; Globalization Social aspects; Social change; National characteristics.; Industrial sociology.
Abstract: "In this study, Arndt Sorge presents a sociological theory of the development of human societies to explain how business systems evolve and change, and how internationalization works to specify and change societal identities within nations. Examining changes in work, organization, corporate governance, and human resources, Sorge shows how this interaction is a pattern that has been followed over centuries. Indeed, amongst the cases Sorge presents, he concentrates on the example of Germany, a supposedly highly homogeneous and closed society, as evidence for the universality of shifting borders, expanding horizons, local adoption and adaptation of global practices, and the hybridization of systems and standards, as the normal course of social evolution."--Jacket.
Contents: The paradox of internationalization -- Societal effects : from vacuum to tropical jungle -- Emergent national distinctiveness through international exposure -- The south Germanic bedrock under foreign incursions -- The governance of work systems -- Enterprise management and corporate governance -- Making sense of internationalization.