Synopses & Reviews
Sumantra Ghoshal on Management represents Ghoshal¿s twenty-year intellectual odyssey to challenge the underpinnings of management thought; to expose, rework and replace the foundation stones of management thinking. Exploring his key ideas, and reflecting his genius for collaboration along the way, this book shows how
he had become a force for good in the world of management.
"This book celebrates a great mind, a great spirit, and a dear friend."
Henry Mintzberg
"Sumantra Ghoshal was one of a small handful of management thinkers who could speak with equal authority to the world of business and the world of academia. His ideas were challenging, insightful and often heretical, and his impact on the field of management was profound. This book captures the essence of Sumantra's work as well as his more recent ideas about the deep challenges facing management theory.¿
Laura Tyson, Dean, LondonBusinessSchool
"Sumantra Ghoshal was one of the past quarter century's most original and creative researchers in the field of management practice. This collection is a valuable resource that presents a challenging, yet cohesive, set of ideas that are testament to his importance as a provocatively original thinker in a world too often characterized by conventional wisdom and conformity."
Christopher A. Bartlett, Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, HarvardBusinessSchool
"Sumantra Ghoshal changed the way we understand organizations and the people who populate them. In March 2004 he passed away in the midst of creating a sustained argument about the role of purpose in organizations and the nature of human goodness. This important book captures the highlights of a lifetime of work and creates a foundation from which scholars and practicing managers can craft their own purpose."
Professor Lynda Gratton, LondonBusinessSchool
"Few who came into contact with the ideas of the late Sumantra Ghoshal
were unmoved by them. The extraordinary range and depth of the
material in this book stands not just as an essential memorial to a
brilliant thinker but even more importantly as an inspiration to take
up the challenge he left behind: that of creating a better theory and
practice of management, in all senses of the term."
Simon Caulkin, Management Editor, The Observer
¿Ghoshal, a management guru, was not just a man of boundless energy and inventiveness; he also married the theoretical and the pragmatic in a way that is rare in the world of management literature.¿
The Economist
¿Sumantra Ghoshal was a brilliant and original thinker in a field that needs more of them. He used his intellect to understand organizations and to help managers to make them better places to work and greater forces for good¿
The Guardian
Review
"Ghoshal not only had interesting ideas; he expressed them interestingly. This collection reflects his eagerness to send those ideas to a wider; it deserves to find the audience he sought." - Economist, June 2005
Synopsis
Sumantra Ghoshal on Management represents Ghoshal¿s twenty-year intellectual odyssey to challenge the underpinnings of management thought; to expose, rework and replace the foundation stones of management thinking. Exploring his key ideas, and reflecting his genius for collaboration along the way, this book shows how
he had become a force for good in the world of management
- The first book to bring all the key Ghoshal writings together in one place.
- When a guru is well known and respected collected guru works sell extremely well. Ghoshal was perhaps the foremost management theorist in Europe, and has an army of personal and professional admirers.
- Today's leading lights in management and strategy provide context and commentary.
- Introduction by Julian Birkinshaw, discusses Goshal's work as a whole and its relevance to today's business environment.
- Published on the anniversary of Goshal¿s death, this title will be timely and supported by a national PR campaign that is sure to grab attention.
- Goshal's works are well grounded in research but deeply applicable to the everyday working environment.
- AUDIENCE: Will sell well to academics and general business readers alike. Key audience categories: senior managers, consultants, academics and students.
- BENCHMARKS: The Essential Drucker, HarperCollins 2003. Maslow on Management, John Wiley 1998.
About the Author
Julian Birkinshaw, LBS lecturer and author of several books on leadership, entrepreneurship, and the effects of globalisation on corporate organization. Recent title,
Leadership the Sven-Goran Erikksonn Way.
Dr Gita Piramal is the Managing Editor of The Smart Manager, India's first world class management magazine. Gita is also India's foremost business writer and business historian. A former journalist, she has worked with several leading publications world wide, but mostly with UK's Financial Times and India's Economic Times.She has written or contributed chapters to nine books, including Business Maharajas, Business Legends, Managing Radical Change and World Class in India. Each of her books have promptly shot into the best seller list. Gita recently received the Business Today Award for being one of India's 25 most powerful women in 2004. She also received the Scholar of the Year 2004 award from Ness Wadia College, Pune
Table of Contents
Introduction: A force for good
1. Managing Across Borders: New concepts and perspectives on the Multinational Corporation
C.A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal, "Managing Across Borders; The New Strategic Requirements", Sloan Management Review, Summer 1987.
C.A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal, "Managing Across Borders: The New Organizational Responses", Sloan Management Review, Fall 1987.
S. Ghoshal and C.A. Bartlett, "The Multinational Corporation as an Interorganizational Network", Academy of Management Review, October 1990.
S. Ghoshal and N. Nohria, "Internal Differentiation within Multinational Corporations", Strategic Management Journal, vol. 10, July-August, 1989.
2. The Individualised Corporation: Towards a managerial theory of the firm
S. Ghoshal and H. Mintzberg, "Diversification and Diversifact", California Management Review, vol 37, No. 1, Fall, 1994.
C.A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal, "Rebuilding Behavioral Context: Turn Process Reengineering into People Rejuvenation", Sloan Management Review, Fall, 1995.
Ghoshal and C.A. Bartlett, "Rebuilding Behavioral Context: A Blueprint for Corporate Renewal", Sloan Management Review, Winter, 1996.
S. Ghoshal and P. Moran, "Bad for Practice: A Critique of the Transaction Cost Theory", Academy of Management Review, January, 1996.
3. The new management agenda: Building social capital and unleashing organizational energy
J. Nahapiet and S. Ghoshal, "Social Capital, Intellectual Capital and the Organizational Advantage", Academy of Management Review, April, 1998.
Radical Performance improvement is possible. Chapter 1 of Managing Radical Change by S. Ghoshal, G. Piramal, and C.A. Bartlett. 2000. (Note: this paper will have to be edited to remove references to other chapters in the book; it needs to work as a stand-alone piece)
S. Ghoshal and L. Gratton, ¿Integrating the Enterprise¿, Sloan Management Review, Fall 2002.
H. Bruch and S. Ghoshal, ¿Beware the Busy Manager¿, Harvard Business Review, February 2002.
Commentary: Chris Bartlett, Gita Piramal, Lynda Gratton, Heike Bruch, Henry Mintzberg