Independent Research

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Independent Research

As well as writing up some of the lecture notes, I have been researching into other areas of Comparative Management.

Institutionalism (Lecture 2)

• North (1994) - Institutions
• DiMaggio and Powell (1983) - The Iron Cage Revisited

Business systems (Lecture 3)

• Redding (2005) - The Thick Description

Economic history (Lecture 4)

• Jones (1997) - UK history
• Lazonick (1991) - American industry

Culture (Lecture 5)

• Hofstede - Confucian Dynamism
• Trompenaars (1993) - Riding the Waves of Culture

Transfers of management practice (Lecture 6)

• Kipping and Bjarnar (1998) - The Marshall Plan and the transfer of US management models to Europe
• Brannen, Liker and Fruin (1999) - Recontextualisation and factory-to-factory knowledge transfer from Japan to the US: the Case of NSK

Cross-cultural management (Expatriates, Lecture 8)

• Chen (2004) - (from Asian Management) Detailed analysis of Guanxi
• Graham and Lam (2003) - The Chinese Negotiation
• Ghauri and Fang (2001) - Negotiating with the Chinese: a sociocultural analysis
• Sergeant and Frenkel (1998) - Managing people in China

Economic transition (Lecture 9)

• Estrin (2002) - Competition and corporate governance in transition
• Meyer (2001a) - International business research on transition economies
• Peng and Heath (1996) - The growth of the firm in planned economies in transition

Managing in a changing environment (Lecture 10)

• May, Puffer and Puffer (2005) - Transferring management knowledge to Russia: A culturally based approach
• Michailova (2002) - When common sense becomes uncommon: participation and empowerment in Russian companies with Western participation
• Meyer (2002) - Management challenges in privatisation acquisitions in transition economies