Leo McCann 
A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Globalization [PDF ebook] 

In
Globalization, the author explores the various intermingled aspects that make up the processes and controversies of globalization; he discusses the history and rise of the concept, sceptical and critical ideas about it, the debates around a global culture, and the implications of globalization for work, business, management and organizations.



Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘
Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap’ series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.



Suitable for students of international business and anybody interested in the concept of globalization.

Tabela de Conteúdo

Introduction: Globalizatoin at Christmas, on the High Seas and in Outer Space

Chapter 1: Globalization – The Rise

Chapter 2: Globalization as Myth and Hype: Exploring the Globalization Sceptics

Chapter 3: Critics of Globalization in the North and South

Chapter 4: The Globalization Culture Wars

Chapter 5: Global Times, Global Organizations?

Chapter 6: Globalization – The Fall?

Sobre o autor

Leo Mc Cann is Professor of Organisation Studies at Manchester Business School. His research and teaching focuses on the impacts of large-scale economic change on work and organization across numerous countries. He has written many articles on the subject of the international transformation of white-collar work in journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations,  and Organization Studies. He is the co-author of Managing in the Modern Corporation(Cambridge University Press, 2009), a major empirical study into the restructuring of white-collar work in the UK, USA and Japan. His research draws on the paradigms of sociology of work, varieties of capitalism, and political economy, exploring how large-scale ‘global’ transformations are translated through national institutional structures with often profound effects on the everyday lives of organizations, managers, workers and citizens. He is also the author of International and Comparative Business: Foundations of Political Economies (Sage Publications, 2014), a textbook based on over a decade of experience teaching and researching comparative capitalism, globalization, and the restructuring of organizations and work.