Table of Contents

Editors' Preface Introduction 1. Globalization, Management Control and Ideology by Riad Ajami, C. Edward Arrington, Falconer Mitchell and Hanne NA rreklit Part One Systems of Modernity and Local Ideology 2. Jeremiah, Bill Gates, and American Ideology by C. Edward Arrington 3. American "Fair Contract" and Danish tradition: Problems of Conflicting Ideologies by Hanne NA rreklit, Preben Melander and Lennart NA rreklit 4. When a Totalitarian Ideology Prevails: Exploring the Relations of Fascist "Corporate Economy" and Business Studies in Italy in the Thirties by Lino Cinquini 5. Western Ideology and Management: An Oriental Detour by Yvon Pesqueux, Dang Pham Huy and Fabien de Geuser 6. Contracts and the Dynamics of Exchange Relationships by Rajesh Kumar 7. Global Financial Markets and Indigenous Financial Systems: The Emerging Fault Lines by Riad Ajami Part Two Ideology of Modernity and Management Control 8. Ideology and Local Management Practice and Discourse: A Framework by Annick Bourguignon 9. Are They Really Too Simple? Management Control Systems Face the Ideology of Complexity by Michel Fiol and Fabien de Geuser 10. Late-modern Politics and the Ubiquity of Accounting: The Expansion of New Public Management within the US Public Sector by Ann L. Watkins and C. Edward Arrington 11. Ideology and the UK Management Accounting Profession by Falconer Mitchell 12. "Truly Impartial, Truly Serving The Public": Anglo-American Influences and Ideology in the Development of Auditing in Germany by Lisa Evans Part Three Postmodern Trajectories: From Control to Therapy 13. Ideology at Work: Using Language to Reconstruct Workplace Realities by Inger Askehave 14. The Ideology of Management Coaching by Anne Ellerup Nielsen and Hanne NA rreklit Part Four Towards Cosmopolitan Reconciliation of Control and Ideology 15. The Validity of Ideological Globalization by Lennart NA rreklit About the authors