Globalization and the inequality trap
Subtitle: an ethnography of Philippine capitalism
By: Mari Iizuka
Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Asian business series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230358560
Subjects: Economic policy; Economic development; Globalization; Equality; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Development
Description: "Globalization and the Inequality Trap serves as the first comprehensive book on Philippine management for both the local and the international markets. Despite the vast English-speaking population, the Philippines has largely been neglected in the area of management publications. This ethnographic account examines the management practices of a plant in the Philippines, and links its findings to the varieties of capitalism analysis of the Philippines.  This volume also addresses an 'inequality trap' - the concept highlighted by the World Bank in its World Development Report of 2006. The author presents realities and offers insights to the very central issues of globalization, such as inequalities and global management.  Though the Philippines has been neglected in management publications, this does not mean that it does not have much to offer to management literature. Philippine society, known to have experienced long-running and severe inequalities, is caught in a so-called inequality trap and is an alarming model for future societies where globalization is currently taking place. Globalization and the Inequality Trap presents the opportunities available, as well as the limits of "good" global management practices in a society which has been experiencing prolonged and severe inequalities. The insight presented in this account may sound the alarm for many other countries in the world, which are similarly challenged by the widening and prolonging of inequalities created by globalization.  "--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: PART I: THE PHILIPPINE PUZZLE; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. From Inequality Trap Capitalism to Migration Trap Capitalism; title: 3. A Worker in the Trap: From Father to Son; title: 4. Formal Structure - The Surface; title: PART II: MANAGING IN THE TRAP; title: 5. Informal Structure - The Reality; title: 6. Counter-forces against Inequality: The Union and Guerrillas; title: PART III: THE GLOBALIZATION PARADOX; title: 7. The MNC as Liberator; title: 8. Globalization: From One Trap to Another?.