Modernization, Industrialization and Development

Gavin Jack and Robert Westwood
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Gavin Jack: La Trobe University
Robert Westwood: University of Technology

Chapter 5 in International and Cross-Cultural Management Studies, 2009, pp 114-139 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the previous chapter we outlined and discussed the historical conditions of possibility, and thus the material and discursive precursors, of the fields of international and cross-cultural management: Western science, anthropology and imperial commercial and organizational practices. This chapter looks at how these knowledge systems became entwined and inter-related through the discourses of modernization, industrialization and development that emerged in the US post-World War Two period. We shall argue that these discourses reflected the manifold economic, military, political and cultural concerns of the United States, the new dominant power at this juncture in history. These contextual factors and associated discourses would find direct expression in the early classics of ICCM: Harbison and Myers’ (1959) Management in the Industrial World: An International Analysis, and Kerr et al.’s (1960) Industrialism and Industrial Man: The Problems of Labor and Management in Economic Growth. We offer a critical analysis of central aspects of these texts.

Keywords: International Business; Ford Foundation; Confucian Ethic; Protestant Ethic; Technological Imperative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230248441_5

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