IV ISA Forum of Sociology (February 23-28, 2021)

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Global Management Practices in Emergent Economies. Part I

Abstract Submissions Closed

RC09 Social Transformations and Sociology of Development (host committee)
RC02 Economy and Society

Language: English

Session Type: Oral

In this session, we want to explore the type of management approaches that are practiced in selected emerging countries. Papers presented in this session will explore how companies, subsidiaries, and enterprises become profitable and grow in emerging countries by incorporating globalized norms and standards of management with the local ways of doing business. These processes of adaption are considered as glocalization or hybridization.

We want to demonstrate how hybrid and innovative forms of private companies' management can be shaped by the mobility of people, capital, goods and knowledge. We also want to demonstrate that local business practices (traditions, social networks, so called "poor" governance, and "insufficient" managerial skills) are not obstacles to development but may create economic opportunities.

Understanding of this new approach to management can be achieved through the following strategies:

• Collaborative empirical research across cultures by applying similar research approaches;
• By examining the background, the education and the career of business leaders and managers of industrial and commercial enterprises of selected countries;
• By collecting ethnographic data and producing business related and organization-based case studies from which it will be possible to develop a theoretical framework on how business is conducted, and organizations are managed in emergent economies.

This will allow advancing a cutting-edge, empirically grounded theoretical framework on business and management practices in emergent countries. We will accept papers that present research on the above described topics.