Techno- and ethnocentrism in organizational studies: comment and speculation prompted by Ronen and Shenkar

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In criticizing research conducted by Simcha Ronen and Oded Shenkar, entitled 'Clustering Countries on Attitudinal Dimension' (published in 1985), the statement made that many areas of Africa have not been studied with regard to organizational research is refuted by a review of the literature in this area. Research on the organizations of South Africa and management techniques followed in Liberia, Kenya, Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Zambia are cited. The lack of recognition received by these studies is attributed to the fact that the researchers were not formally designated as organizational researchers (being social anthropologists, political scientists and sociologists), and the publication of such research in other than U.S. journals.

Research, Usage, Criticism and interpretation, Organizational effectiveness, Africa, Ethnocentrism, Cultural relativism, Corporations, African, Ronen, Simcha, Shenkar, Oded

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The parochial dinosaur: organizational science in a global context

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This article reviews academic management from three global perspectives: contextual, quantitative, and qualitative. Based on multiple methods of assessment, academic management is found to be overly parochial. Cultural values of the United States underlie and have fundamentally framed management research, thus imbuing organizational science with implicit, and yet inappropriate, universalism. Recommendations are made to develop a more globally relevant organizational science in which universal, regiocentric, intercultural, and culture-specific theories and research are clearly demarcated. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

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Organization development and national culture: Where's the fit?

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The American management concept of organization development, or OD, has definite cultural underpinnings that complicate its transference to other countries. Where OD conflicts with cultural values, the type of OD intervention that clashes least with cultural norms should be adopted, and further modified, to ensure success. The concept of OD is compared to similar, but different, management concepts in 40 other countries in an attempt to explain the limited acceptance of OD by foreign cultures. 10

Management, Social policy, Culture diffusion

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