Tracing Cold War in Post-Modern Management's Hot Issues

Slawomir Magala

ERIM Report Series Research in Management from Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam

Abstract: Tracing Cold War in post-modern managerial science and ideology one encounters hot issues linking contemporary liberal dogmas and romanticized view of organizational leadership to the dismantling of a welfare state disguised as a liberation of an individual employee, empowerment of an individual consumer and a progressive, liberal and global development of a market/parliament mix. The concept of totalitarianism covers fearful symmetries between three modes of paying the bills for western modernization; liberal, communist and the emergent "egalibertarian"(1), while the ideologies of organisationalism and globalization testify to a search for a post-Cold War mission statement. Messiness of re-engineering the enlargement of the European Union testifies to the hidden injuries of Cold War, not all of them caused by a class and class struggle.

Keywords: Cold War; Managerialist ideology; egaliberty; empowerment; hidden costs of modernization; liberalism; organizationalism; paradigm; romanticized view of leadership; totalitarianism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M M10 M19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-05-07
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