Global ideas : how ideas, objects and practices travel in the global economy / edited by Barbara Czarniawska and Guje Sevón. - 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Advances in organization studies ; 13 1566-1075 ; . - Advances in organization studies ; ; 13. .

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Translation is a vehicle, imitation its motor, and fashion sits at the wheel / Cultural alchemy : translating the experience economy into Scandinavian / The namesake : on best value and other reformmarks / Isomorphism, isopraxism, and isonymism : complementary or competing processes? / Lost and found in the translation of strategic plans and Websites / Environment's many faces : on organizing and translating objects on Stockholm / From "nature" to "economy" and "culture" : how stockfish travels and constructs an action net / Fashion in organizing / Something new, something old, something borrowed : the cross-national translation of the "family friendly organization" in Israel / Articulating agendas and traveling principles in the layering of new strands of academic freedom in contemporary Singapore / Fields of imitation : the global expansion of management education / Globalizing Webs : translation of public sector e-modernization / Close encounters : the circulation and reception of managerial practices in the San Francisco Bay area nonprofit community / Code-switching, or why a metacode is good to have / Barbara Czarniawska and Guje Sevon -- Orvar Lofgren -- Rolf Solli, Peter Demediuk and Robert Sims -- Gudbjorg Erlingsdottir and Kajsa Lindberg -- Hokyu Hwang and David Suarez -- Petra Adolfsson -- Tor Korneliussen and Fabrizio Panozzo -- Barbara Czarniawska -- Michal Frenkel -- Kris Olds -- Tina Hedmo, Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson and Linda Wedlin -- Hans Krause Hansen and Dorte Salskou-Iversen -- Walter W. Powell, Denise L. Gammal and Caroline Simard -- Richard Rottenburg. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

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Economics--Philosophy
Comparative economics
Organizational change.
Comparative management
Diffusion of innovations

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