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Images of Organizing in Popular Culture

Rhodes, C., Parker, M. — 2008-08-18

Men Under Pressure: Representations of the `Salaryman' and his Organization in Japanese Manga

Matanle, P., McCann, L., Ashmore, D. — 2008-08-18

In this paper we analyse representations of the Japanese salaryman and Japanese organization in Japanese manga, or graphic novels, during the turbulent decades from the mid-1980s to the present day. We argue that manga presents salarymen protagonists in a sympathetic yet not uncritical light, and that it displays support for and criticism of both the Japanese and American organizational models. In addition, we describe how these manga offer important critical challenges from the world of popular culture to the direction of change in Japanese business organizations since the 1980s. Moreover, we suggest that the manga may also provide salarymen with opportunities for critically re-evaluating their own working situations and for developing methods for surviving and thriving under the pressures of working within contemporary Japanese business organizations.

The (D)evolution of the Cyberwoman?

Czarniawska, B., Gustavsson, E. — 2008-08-18

In this paper, we examine Donna Haraway's idea of a liberating potential of cyborgization in the light of popular culture products related to organized work. We consider two different takes on this issue: women as technology and technology as women, and we start with the successive versions of Stepford Wives (the novel, the 1975 movie and the 2004 movie), and continue by tracing the evolution of the character of a cyberwoman, from William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984) and Idoru (1996), to Trinity from the Matrix trilogy. We show that cyborgization does not automatically denote liberalization, and suggest that the much greater popularity of the Matrix films compared to the intellectual projects of William Gibson means that stereotypes and strong plots survive, finding ever new forms of expression. We end the paper by pointing out the relevance of popular culture models for work in contemporary homes and other workplaces.

Fear and (Self) Loathing in Coleridge Close: Management in Crisis in the 1970s Sitcom

Hancock, P. — 2008-08-18

In this paper my ambition is to contribute to the study of images of organizing in popular culture in two ways. Drawing in particular on the work of the German philosopher and critical theorist Ernst Bloch, I firstly argue for the utility of a dialectical approach to the interrogation of cultural artefacts, one that recognizes the co-existence of both ideological and critical content as integral to the artefact itself. I then illustrate this approach through a textual analysis of several British television situation comedies of the 1970s. In doing so, I argue that throughout this period it is possible to discern a deep-seated cultural unease with the role and legitimacy of organizational management within what was an unstable industrial and economic environment. I conclude by reflecting not only on the implications of this particular finding, but also on the utility of adopting such a theoretical orientation. One that simultaneously attends to both the deeply ideological content and structure of such material while, at the same time, retaining an orientation prepared to pursue the critical and potentially utopian content that remains within.

`What the Hell is That?': The Representation of Professional Service Markets in The Simpsons

Ellis, N. — 2008-08-18

This paper makes productive connections between two forms of representation—formal scholarship on professional service workers and their depictions in The Simpsons cartoon series. In considering the show's representations of Attorney Lionel Hutz and Dr Nick Riviera, I ponder the ways in which the market-based behaviours of these `expert' individuals are so repeatedly targeted for satire. Through a detailed dissection of The Simpsons' scripts, I demonstrate how, on the one hand, the show to a large degree reflects critical thinking on the nature of the `professional project' yet, on the other, offers some rather more ambivalent, even sympathetic, notions of professional identity .

Dance-work: Images of Organization in Irish Dance

Kavanagh, D., Kuhling, C., Keohane, K. — 2008-08-18

The Irish economic boom, commonly known as the Celtic Tiger, provides an interesting and unique opportunity to explore the relationship between the profound shifts in the organization of working life and in the production and consumption of culture. In this paper, we confine our inquiry into the relationship with one aspect of popular culture, namely dance, focusing on the phenomenon of Riverdance which emerged contemporaneously with the Celtic Tiger. We argue that both are deeply immersed in larger organizing discourses, historical narratives about national identity and civilizing attempts to control the body. We identify three distinct `moments' in the development of Irish dance, which we label as pre-national, `Traditional' Ireland; national, `Modern', Parochial Ireland and global, `Post-modern' Ireland. This provides a narrative through which we explore the transformation of working relations in Ireland during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Dancing Amidst the Flames: Imagination and Self-Organization in a Minor Key

Shukaitis, S. — 2008-08-18

Drawing from Deleuze and Guattari's (1986) formulation of the concept of a `minor literature' and Nick Thoburn's extension of this into a `minor politics' (2003a) this paper examines the relation between the workings of the imagination and forms of self-organization found within anticapitalist organizing of the Industrial Workers of the World and related movements. This paper explores the modulations of the social imaginary found within these particular examples as indicative of a more general process of minor composition. Rather than affirming an already existing and known subjective position (of the people, the workers), it will be argued that rather such campaigns have playfully and strategically redirected and appropriated the social energies found within pop culture to articulate their demands.

Pop (Culture) Goes the Organization: On Highbrow, Lowbrow and Hybrids in Studying Popular Culture Within Organization Studies

Rehn, A. — 2008-08-18

Do we need to study popular culture within organization studies, and exactly what is it we do if we choose to do so? Is it nothing more than organizational scholars co-opting yet another discipline, or is there an independent contribution to be made? I will in this text argue that in order to develop, organization studies must find its own identity in relation to cultural studies, and that the search for this must by necessity include the study of hybrid cultural forms. Such forms, which are neither highbrow nor properly lowbrow, challenge common assumptions about what `popular' in fact means in the field, and points towards the need for a more complex theory of how images of management and organization are consumed, disseminated and re-created from the world of popular culture into the world of the contemporary organization and back again.

Organization's Engagements with Ancient Egypt: Framing and Claiming the Sublime?

Riad, S. — 2008-06-12

In this paper I write to examine the turn to ancient Egypt and the production of the geography of interest that surrounds it; specifically, I consider relationships between artifacts and arguments of relevance to organization by offering three spaces of aporetic negotiability that explore engagements with ancient Egypt. These examine attempts at a variety of claims in both senses of the word: forms of ancient Egypt are claimed for organization even as forms of organization are claimed and located in ancient Egypt. The argument is that while such appropriations can be constraining, they are simultaneously inscribed in the conditions for alterity and difference. Hence, the resultant piece inscribes a series of overlapping and, at times, contradictory relationships between ancient Egypt, organization and Egypt. In the first space I consider the writing of ancient Egypt into contemporary accounts on organization by discussing its incorporation into ancient Greek writing; in the second space I pose readings of international engagements with ancient Egypt as the other, while simultaneously claiming it in a metonymy of identity, of the self; in the third space I supplement this with a variety in readings of Egyptians' engagement with ancient Egypt. The afterword stops short of a final word; rather, it offers some reflections on ancient Egypt's appeal to various organizational collectives.

From Flexibility to Work-Life Balance: Exploring the Changing Discourses of Management Consultants

Whittle, A. — 2008-06-12

What is the role of management consultants in the diffusion of fashionable ideas? This paper addresses this question by drawing on an ethnographic study of management consultants in the UK. The study examined how the consultants made sense of a newly emerging discourse of work-life balance. Using the metaphor of a `bandwagon', the study reveals the shifting interpretations of the work-life balance discourse as the consultants found themselves `riding alongside', `cashing in', `steering', `steering clear of' and `falling off' the bandwagon. These findings question the idea that fashion-setters always `jump on' to fashion bandwagons, thereby acting as passive channels in the diffusion of popular discourses. Instead, the study highlights the similarities between fashion-setters and their audiences in the reflexive and strategic ways in which discourses can be interpreted, enacted and appropriated.

The Blur Sensation: Shadows of the Future

O'Doherty, D. P. — 2008-06-12

The paper raises the question of embodiment and disembodiment as modes of theorizing organization and essays that struggle to negotiate what we call `entrance' to Blur, an `anti-architectural' installation designed as a working media pavilion by the New York based architects Diller and Scofidio. In Blur the human body is displaced from its customary mode of being-in-the-world and is given chance to discover `media' in organization as transport and possible metamorphosis in thinking and being organization. It is difficult to escape `Blur'. As the paper proceeds the reader begins to experience the sense that Blur is everywhere in organization—media and outcome of organization and both a symptom and possible site for the treatment of its underlying theoretical and methodological aporias. Blur invites a kind of de-subjectivization that intensifies sensation and affect splitting the subject across different modalities of consciousness and perception that provides essential experience for thinking organization critically. In the absence of this incorporeal `en-trance' the paper argues we will remain victim of the tautologies and infinite regress that afflict current thinking in aesthetics and organization and which restrict its practice to an inherently conservative form of organization analysis.

Accountability Arrangements in Non-State Standards Organizations: Instrumental Design and Imitation

Gulbrandsen, L. H. — 2008-06-12

This paper analyses accountability arrangements in the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and other organizations that set standards for certification and eco-labelling. It focuses on two types of accountability that are likely to be achievable and important to non-state standards organizations: control and responsiveness. In setting a global standard based on a multi-stakeholder governance structure, FSC established a model for other certification schemes, specifically within the forestry and fisheries sectors. By creating the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), FSC-supporters exported the certification model to the fisheries sector. Industry-led forest certification schemes that were initiated to compete with FSC and offer an industry-dominated model have come to mimic procedural accountability arrangements initially established by their competitor. However, they have carefully filtered out the prescriptions that could reduce their influence in standard-setting processes. The paper argues that while certification schemes could enhance control of corporate environmental and social performance, some of the industry-dominated schemes adopt popular and fashionable accountability recipes to divert criticism of their activities instead of acting responsively to external constituents such as environmental and social groups.

Hegemonic Academic Practices: Experiences of Publishing from the Periphery

Merilainen, S., Tienari, J., Thomas, R., Davies, A. — 2008-06-12

Drawing on a reflexive account of a British—Finnish joint publishing experience, we suggest that institutions of academic publishing are constantly reproduced through hegemonic practices that serve to maintain and reinforce core-periphery relations between the Anglophone core and peripheral countries such as Finland. The wider academic milieu with its taxonomies of academic performance and journal quality serves to perpetuate these practices. This results in academic researchers from the periphery contributing to `othering' within the publishing process.

Speaking Out: On Meta-Ideology and Moralization: A Prolegomena to a Critique of Management Studies

Rehn, A. — 2008-06-12

Book Review: The Seventh City: The New Spirit of Capitalism by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello. London, Verso, 2006. 656pp. ISBN 1859845541

Parker, M. — 2008-06-12

Book Review: `Le Nouvel Esprit du Capitalisme': Some Reflections from France: The New Spirit of Capitalism by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello, trans. G. Elliott. London, Verso, 2006. {pound}24.99, ISBN 1859845541

Leca, B., Naccache, P. — 2008-06-12

Call for Papers--Special Issue on Jacques Lacan and Organization Studies

2008-06-12

Call for Papers--Special Issue on: Towards a Relational Understanding of Organization and Value: For Whom? For What? To What Effect?

2008-06-12

Enterprising Selves: How Governmentality Meets Agency

Gleadle, P., Cornelius, N., Pezet, E. — 2008-04-15

Understanding Enterprise

Salaman, G., Storey, J. — 2008-04-15

The idea of `Enterprise' has been extensively used in recent years as a way to understand the principles underlying the reinvention of organizations and employees. It tends to be used as a counterfactual to `bureaucracy'. However, we argue that while this approach has produced some rich insights, an over-emphasis on the notion of enterprise may exaggerate the reality of change. In this paper we focus on the ways in which top managers mediate the construct. We try to show that enterprises—even those `liberated' from bureaucratic regulation and constraint—need not necessarily be enterprising. This linkage has in the past been asserted but too frequently left unexplored. We suggest that an analysis of enterprising forms of organization requires a more nuanced and a more empirically-based understanding of the ways in which enterprise is interpreted and deployed within organizations which are apparently—on the surface at least—seemingly committed to `achieving enterprise'.

Whither Research in Enterprise? A Response to Salaman and Storey

Fenwick, T. — 2008-04-15

Reply to Tara Fenwick

Salaman, G., Storey, J. — 2008-04-15

`Without Affection or Enthusiasm' Problems of Involvement and Attachment in `Responsive' Public Management

Paul Du Gay, — 2008-04-15

The paper focuses on the changing ethical template that programmes of `responsive' or `entrepreneurial' managerial reform require of civil servants. Contemporary demands for responsive public management contain two emotional injunctions to public bureaucrats. The first, derived from populist doctrines of political right, requires bureaucrats to be responsive to the needs of their `clients'. In the name of `recognition' and the `politics of care', for example, it is thought vital to inculcate in bureaucratic conduct a sense of `compassion' or close identification with others' feelings. Secondly, in the name of responsiveness to political superiors and the delivery of their policy objectives, bureaucrats are expected to exhibit `ownership' of and identification with particular policies. They are required to be committed champions for and enthusiastic advocates of those policies. Both of these injunctions are deemed to be more in tune with democratic principles and the currents of contemporary ethical culture (`diversity' or `human rights', for example) than what is represented as the unlamented Weberian world of rule-bound hierarchy. The paper seeks to question this assessment.

Identity, Contract and Enterprise in a Primary Care Setting: An English General Practice Case Study

McDonald, R., Harrison, S., Checkland, K. — 2008-04-15

This paper examines the responses of primary health care clinicians (doctors and nurses) to an invitation to enterprise contained in a new contract which offers financial rewards for meeting targets. We suggest that far from being swept along by a hegemonic enterprise discourse or having `no choice but to comply' (Cohen and Musson, 2000: 45), the engagement of our study participants in enterprising behaviours can be understood in terms of a more active process, albeit one characterized by new bureaucratic forms. Rather than riding roughshod over cherished traditional identities, part of the attraction of enterprise in our case study can be understood in terms of its role in assisting enterprising clinicians in managing the tensions inherent in these identities.

Who's Afraid of Enterprise?: Producing and Repressing the Enterprise Self in a UK Bank

McCabe, D. — 2008-04-15

This paper explores two discourses that are bound up with `producing' two types of subject in a UK Bank. An enterprise discourse, which stresses responsible, customer focused, team players that use their initiative and a Fordist discourse, which conceives of employees as mechanical beings who repetitively process work. Through attending to the work experiences of back office clerks, the paper considers how the latter discourse `represses' the former. Although distinct, the two discourses share a common bureaucratic rationale and a logic of individualization that represses more collective ways of being or alternative subjectivities that might challenge or question the status quo. Nonetheless, the paper indicates limits to the power that management is able to exercise through enterprise, given the contradictory and flawed approach that was adopted.

The Enterprising Self: An Unsuitable Job for an Older Worker

Ainsworth, S., Hardy, C. — 2008-04-15

The discourse of enterprise has permeated contemporary society with significant implications for government, organizations and individuals alike. In particular, enterprise prescribes an ideal identity, that of the `enterprising self'. This study examines the ability of the older worker to become part of this enterprise culture through the analysis of an Australian government inquiry. Our findings show that certain categories of identity—such as older workers—are unable to don the mantle of enterprise, although they are nonetheless subjected to it, helping to explain why the discourse of enterprise is so persistent and durable.

Infantilized Adults or Confident Consumers? Enterprise Discourse in the UK Retail Banking Industry

Nayak, A., Beckett, A. — 2008-04-15

In this paper we examine the implications of enterprise discourse within the context of a culture of consumption. Drawing on empirical work on the UK retail banking industry we demonstrate how retail banking in the UK is central to constructing `confident consumers' in a consumerist society and demonstrate how enterprise and consumption have reframed the interaction between banks and the consumer. We identify a rhizomic network that spans across diverse activities and electronic traces, and a variety of data sources and statistical techniques that mediate between the industry players. We argue that there has been a fundamental shift in rationality from `social obligation' to `confident consumers' which leads to a tension between confident consumers and infantilized adults.

A Consulting Diaspora? Enterprising Selves as Agents of Enterprise

Sturdy, A., Wright, C. — 2008-04-15

While the concept of enterprise identity has been extensively discussed, the active role of individuals in promoting enterprise is less understood. This article presents enterprising selves not simply as a self-disciplinary outcome of power, but as agential, whereby actors support regimes of enterprise, either actively or symbolically. In particular, it explores a neglected group—former management consultants working as change agents within organizations. This `consulting diaspora' is appointed on the basis of the prestige of their former occupation, as well as their enthusiasm for, and skills in, change management. They also embody enterprise through their `personal brand' in the labour market and an anti-bureaucratic, pro-change orientation. However, these characteristics, combined with the perishability of their status, limit the ability of these actors to embed enterprise. Rather, it is through the loss of their novel, enterprising appearance—'going native'—that change is reinforced. Thus, paradoxically, their enterprising nature runs counter to the adoption of techniques of enterprise. This has implications for our understanding of enterprise as organizational change, as well as the promotion of management ideas more generally.

Intra-Preneurship and Enrolment: Building Networks of Ideas

Whittle, A., Mueller, F. — 2008-04-15

In this paper we draw on and develop an actor-network perspective on organizational entrepreneurship—the study of enterprising behaviour within the firm. Based on the findings of an in-depth study of management consultants in a UK telecommunications firm, we argue that ideas do not flourish because they are inherently more `enterprising' or `innovative' than others, but rather because of the success (or otherwise) of the process of `enrolment'. Our study shows that the consultants were not `intermediaries without discretion', tasked with the diffusion of an already-established template. Rather, they acted as mediators by actively seeking to construct and maintain a network around their idea. By revealing the political tactics and power plays involved in this enrolment process, our study contributes to the actor-network literature by highlighting the link to organizational power and politics. The study also contributes by drawing attention to the subjectivity of network-builders—an issue often left under-explored in actor-network studies. We illuminate the identity processes involved in organizational entrepreneurship, including the link to systems of organizational control. This was fuelled by a mixture of anxiety, insecurity and the desire to be recognized as an `intra-preneur'.

Afterword: Segmentation, Reorientation and New Exclusions

Cornelius, N., Gleadle, P., Pezet, E. — 2008-04-15

Book Review: When the Party's Over: The Dark Side of Consulting Les Nettoyeurs by Vincent Petitet. Paris, editions Jean-Claude Lattes, 2006. 16. 248pp. ISBN 2709627302

Boussebaa, M. — 2008-04-15

Book Review: Organized Uncertainty Organized Uncertainty: Designing a World of Risk Management by Michael Power. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. {pound}24.99. 275pp. ISBN 0199253944

McGivern, G. — 2008-04-15

Moral Economic Regulation in Organizations: A University Example

Sayer, A. — 2008-02-19

Starting from the standpoint that all organizations have some kind of moral principles and norms governing what their members are supposed to do and how they should be rewarded, the paper analyses a university example of the moral economy of organizations—the rationales of points systems for governing the workloads of academics and the dilemmas they create. These systems are supposed to value and allocate work according to principles of fairness, but have typically to be modified to take account of personal and economic pressures on individuals and their departments. The design and limits of such systems reveal a `normative partitioning' of activities, with different moral economic criteria being applied to work inputs, to the distribution of economic rewards, and to norms of collegiality. The motivational effects of using or doing without points systems are explored in relation to different management styles. The paper concludes with comments on approaches to ethics and organizational work, arguing that Aristotelian and Smithian approaches are superior to those of Weber and Durkheim.

Femmes Fatales in Finance, or Women and the City

Czarniawska, B. — 2008-02-19

This paper concerns the representations of women working with finances in popular culture. Popular culture retrieves plots from a common repertoire, and in this way transmits ideals and furnishes descriptions of reality, but it also teaches practices and provides a means through which practices might be understood. Apart from portraying its own era, it also perpetuates strong plots, i.e. established and repeated patterns of emplotment. One such strong plot seems to be persistent in popular culture's representations of women working with finances. Their fate is depicted along the lines known best from Euripides' tragedies: they transgress `women's place' and commit heroic or mad deeds. By doing so, they might save the city (Athens in the case of Euripides, the City in finance stories), but afterwards they must either die or be sent back. The later part of this paper is dedicated to the case of the banker Robin Saunders that has been reported in two different ways in the UK and Germany, one supporting the strong plot and one defying it, which offers material for reflection on the complexity of both the influence of popular culture and the fate of women in finance.

Experimenting with Commodities and Gifts: The Case of an Office Hotel

Jensen, T. E. — 2008-02-19

The article explores four different images of the relationship between market economy and gift economy drawn from economic sociology and anthropology. Second, it presents a case study of an office hotel, which experimented with the relationship between markets and gifting by urging the companies it hosted to share knowledge and commercial contacts. Drawing on Callon's notions of framing and overflowing, the article shows how various interactions (`overflows') either displaced, supported or reinvigorated the boundaries between market and gifting at the office hotel. It notes that these overflows characteristically involved the sharing of access to interactional spaces and information about interaction partners. Finally, it suggests that a particular form of politics of exchange comes into view in the empirical case. This politics centres on the discovery of pragmatic and relatively benign forms of parasitism between modes of exchange.

Individualization and Equality: Women's Careers and Organizational Form

Wickham, J., Collins, G., Greco, L., Browne, J. — 2008-02-19

Some feminist writings have claimed that `bureaucracy' is inherently `patriarchal'. This article challenges this argument by comparing the experience of women in Ireland in a state sector organization and in a cluster of software firms. While the bureaucratic state company has been reformed to incorporate equal opportunities, in the individualized or `marketized' software companies women's progress is at the whim of individual managers and motherhood and a career are largely incompatible. If bureaucratic organizations can be reformed in this way, it cannot be claimed that there is any inherent link between bureaucracy and patriarchy. Instead organizations can be either bureaucratic or marketized, and either patriarchal or woman-friendly. These are two separate dimensions which change independently of each other. On this basis the article suggests that the contemporary `remasculinization' of management occurs because earlier reforms in bureaucratic organizations are now being eroded.

Fear and Loathing in Harrogate, or a Study of a Conference

Ford, J., Harding, N. — 2008-02-19

There have been no studies in organization research of conferences as part of the world of work. This paper describes a reflexive ethnographic study of one management conference. It finds that upon arrival at the places and spaces of the conference processes of self-making as conference attendee are set in train. Self-making subsequently takes place within processes of domination and subordination, achieved through fear, infantilization, disparagement and seduction. Reading this through the lens of Freudian-informed interpretations of the Hegelian master/slave dialectic, the paper argues that conferences are one of the means of control over academic, managerial and professional employees. Control is achieved through dialectical interactions between conference and employee.

Mapping Academic Resistance in the Managerial University

Anderson, G. — 2008-02-19

This article explores the phenomenon of academics' resistance to managerialism in the contemporary university. Drawing on interviews with 30 academics in ten Australian universities, it employs a range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives to map and analyse the forms of resistance to managerialism enacted by these academics. In particular, it draws on the work of James C. Scott, including his notions of the `weapons of the weak', and the `hidden transcript' of the subordinated and powerless, to frame an account of organizational resistance in higher education. It is argued here that Scott's anthropological studies of resistance make a useful contribution to an understanding of workplace resistance, complementing recent theoretical developments within this field which emphasize the importance of discursive resistance.

Speaking Out: The Responsibilities of Management Intellectuals: A Survey

Dunne, S., Harney, S., Parker, M. — 2008-02-19

This article discusses our analysis of over 2,000 articles published within 20 top business and management journals. The article empirically demonstrates how little attention is being paid by the work published within these journals to contemporary political issues across the globe. We also demonstrate the extent to which the same is true of `critical' journals such as Organization . To this end we argue that mass scholarly ranking mechanisms, such as the British Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), create a general state of myopia on the part of business and management scholars towards a variety of political issues, even making a virtue out of ignorance in this regard. We suggest that this is not simply a problem for critical management studies and proceed to raise the question of what the responsibility of business and management academia actually is.

Speaking Out: Evidence-Based Management: A Backlash Against Pluralism in Organizational Studies?

Learmonth, M. — 2008-02-19

Methodological and ideological pluralism has been a defining feature of much organizational analysis for many years now—although resistance to it has always been present. The rise of `evidence-based management' (EBM) is read as the latest form of resistance to pluralism— one that might prove particularly hard to refuse given the popularity of many other forms of evidence-based practices. So I explore the prospects for EBM within organization studies and some of its implications for those who value the continuation of pluralistic forms of analysis in organizational research.

Book Review: `It's Time To Fly!' An Assessment of Optimism in Contemporary India. Global `Body Shopping': An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry by Xiang Biao. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007. $19.95. ISBN: 9780691118512 India's New Middle Classes: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform by Leela Fernandes. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 20007. $22.50. ISBN: 9780818649273 Planet India: How the Fastest-Growing Democracy is Transforming America and the World by Mira Kamdar. Scribner, New York, NY, 2007. $26.00. ISBN: 8790743296854 In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce. Doubleday, New York, NY, 2007. $17.16. ISBN: 9780385514743. The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity by Amartya Sen. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, NY, 2005. $17.16. ISBN: 9780374105839

Ganesh, S. — 2008-02-19

Book Review: Are Consultants Simply Bluffing? Sociologie du conseil en management by Michel Villette. Editions La Decouverte, Paris, 2003. 7.95. ISBN 2707140368

Boussebaa, M. — 2008-02-19