Management Research: Volume 4 Issue 3

The Influence of National Business Environment as Shaper of Organizatinoal Action: The Case of Argentina

Andrés Hatum

Organizational studies have often omitted the importance of national differences as shapers of the organizational action of firms. This study aims to address the particular…

Conceptualizing Brazilian Multiple and Fluid Cultural Profiles

Miguel P. Caldas

This paper puts forth a conceptual framework of multiple and fluid national culture focused on the contemporary Brazilian context. Drawing from recent criticism on the excessive…

Mexico’s Management and Organization Studies Challenges in the Twenty‐First Century: Practices, Knowledge, and Reencounters

Eduardo Ibarra‐Colado

The paper demonstrates that management and organization studies (MOS) differ if we consider them from an Anglo‐centric point of view or if we look at them from the…

Portuguese Management Between Global Rhetoric and Local Reality: The Case of Human Resource Management

Carlos Cabral‐Cardoso

Although the gap between rhetoric and reality is not a specific human resource management (HRM) feature, the disconnection between discourse and action seems to have reached…

Sketches of Spain: The Politics of Fashion

Chris Carter, Stewart Clegg, Martin Kornberger, Frank Mueller, Ianna Contardo

In this paper, we propose an understanding of what personnel professionals consume when they “adopt” black‐box management initiatives (Scarbrough, 1995; Wilson, 1992). Second, we…