Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 8 Issue 4

Globalization folklore problems of myth and ideology in the discourse on globalization

Robert S. Spich

Discusses myth making and ideology in the discourse onglobalization. Argues that the present globalization model of the worldpolitical economy represents more of a contemporary…

Challenging the juggernaut of globalization: a manifesto for academic praxis

David S. Steingard, Dale E. Fitzgibbons

Calls into question the widespread, and seemingly inevitable,globalization of Western business practices into every corner of theplanet. Challenges the assumption that host…

Globalization, borderless worlds, and the Tower of Babel: Metaphors gone awry

Carolyn Green, Karen Ruhleder

Discusses the visions of “global villages”,“borderless worlds” and “towers of Babel” which,according to the visionaries of our day, we are heading towards,enhanced by the rapid…

Global ideals, local realities: the development project and missionary management in Russia

Christa L. Walck

Since the break‐up of the Soviet Union, the Western media andWestern academics have used the benign rhetorical frames of“democratization”, “privatization”,“transition to a market…