GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL: UNDERSTANDING THE DIALECTICS OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS.
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published: 2005
Place of publication: OXFORD
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 306
Description: "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.