Local Problems and Foreign Solutions: Issues of Management Training in Russia and NIS

Bruno Grancelli
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Bruno Grancelli: University of Trento

Chapter 10 in Critical Management Research in Eastern Europe, 2002, pp 187-202 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Management training in transitional societies: some preliminary remarks How much can foreign assistance help in forming the cultural capital needed for the transition to the market economy in the former USSR? The evaluation exercise described below suggests it can do a great deal, even if a lot of problems may emerge (see research on organizational change in the former Soviet-type societies, Boisot 1994; Eberwein and Tholen, 1997; Grancelli, 1995a; 1998a; 1998b; Kozminski, 1993; 1995; Puffer, 1992; van Zon, 1996; Warner and Cambell, 1994). It is also possible to think that a dialectic relationship between the West and the East could ensure that Western management orthodoxy is itself challenged, adapted and reformed in line with the changes taking place in contemporary Europe. In this chapter I suggest that it may be quite misleading to think that this process could be framed within critical theory, constructivist and postmodern approaches (Grancelli, 1995b). Let us take, for instance, one of the main directions of the critical analysis proposed in this volume: the problematization of Western management models and their mechanistic application to Eastern European organizations. Generally speaking our editors are right, of course, when they state that economic policy should be formulated in the light of economic concerns but also be commensurable with societal and cultural values.

Keywords: Social Capital; Local Problem; Cultural Capital; Management Training; Network Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403914361_10

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