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Middle Managers: Differences between Britain and Germany

In: Challenges for European Management in a Global Context — Experiences from Britain and Germany

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  • Hans-Dieter Ganter
  • Peter Walgenbach

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For a long time, proponents of a structuralist approach have assumed that the division of economic actors within firms into the groups of owners, managers and workers allows an explanation of their actions and behaviour. Roles, according to this approach, are, above all, contingent on economic categories such as ownership or the control of means of production, which are assumed not to differ between cultural settings (that is, the culture-free thesis). Members within each of these three groups are believed to act in a similar way, no matter where the firm is located. Interaction between members within each of these groups should therefore pose no obstacles for conducting business internationally: there would seem to be no need to think about peculiarities within specific countries.

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  • Hans-Dieter Ganter & Peter Walgenbach, 2002. "Middle Managers: Differences between Britain and Germany," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Mike Geppert & Dirk Matten & Karen Williams (ed.), Challenges for European Management in a Global Context — Experiences from Britain and Germany, chapter 7, pages 165-188, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-51018-0_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230510180_8
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    1. Chistoph Doerrenbaecher, 2007. "Inside the transnational social space: Cross-border management and owner relationship in a German subsidiary in Hungary," Journal of East European Management Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 12(4), pages 318-339.

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