A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Globalization

Leo McCann 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.

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?

Leo McCann has managed to produce an accessible, entertaining, informative text on globalization that is infused with both scholarly heft and a healthy analytical distance, successfully navigating the treacherous divide between laudatory apologia and criticism for its own sake. This is a valuable resource for teachers, academics, and interested publics of all stripes. -- Stephanie L. Mudge McCann notes that much "of the literature on globalization describes it as powerful, new, inexorable, and a force for good. Closer integration of the world is inevitable and unstoppable. It is pointless to oppose and self-defeating to try." He sets out to challenge these conclusions and the underlying assumptions in six scholarly, entertaining and insightful chapters. This may be a small book, but it punches well above its weight. -- Roger Strange * Journal of International Management * This book makes a beneficial introduction to a field of literature...after deconstructing the myth and hype of globalization McCann proceeds with critically examining the fields in which the concept has been most commonly drawn upon. Culture, economics and politics receive attention, focusing both on the most positive and most negative interpretations of globalization processes in these fields. For the Organization Studies reader, the most interesting chapter [is] the chapter on global organizations. It is here that McCann's vast knowledge on the topic of globalization is most strongly manifested. -- Adrienne Soerbom Highly recommended as a compact, wide-ranging, fast-paced and highly accessible guide to 30 years of globalisation debates. -- Jan Aart Scholte I picked up this book and haven't been able to stop reading it - an amazing companion book. -- 2nd Year Student, BA Modern Languages and Business & Management I can highly recommend this accessible and informed book written by the inimitable Professor Leo McCann -- Tim Moffatt & Alwin Evans, * Radioactive Reading Group * The reader acquires a wealth of knowledge from this book that I doubt could have been passed on in so condensed format by anyone else...It will help not only students of history, politics and the general social sciences but also audiences generally interested in this topic to understand the world better. -- Maik Arnold * Management Learning * Topical and fascinating...This book is eminently compelling and should be intelligible to a wide audience. It is written in a concise but evocative and cogent language, with apt references to modern culture, politics and daily life. Personally, I was highly impressed (and amused). -- Andrew Kozhevnikov * New Technology, Work and Employment *