Doing Business in Developing and Transitional Countries

Peter J. Buckley, Malcolm Chapman, Jeremy Clegg and Hanna Gajewska-De Mattos

International Studies of Management & Organization, 2011, vol. 41, issue 2, 26-54

Abstract: This article challenges the dominant logic of the approach to the study of development and of transitional countries by examining the structure of oppositions by which global economic rationality is contrasted with traditional local rationality. The elements of these distinctions are delineated and analyzed using the example of the Germanic/Slavonic contrasts in the discourse on development. Drawing on material from the Wielkopolska district of Poland, the article provides a detailed analysis of the mentality of people in this region as they perceive themselves and others. We conclude that detailed two-country contrasts are an important complement to the standard approaches to understanding cultural differences in international business research and that social anthropological ideas about classification, structural opposition, and definition of the self and the other are fertile sources of insight for understanding such two-country contrasts.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410202

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