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Author: | Özen, S. Berkman, Ü |
Title: | Cross-national reconstruction of managerial practices: TQM in Turkey |
Journal: | Organization Studies
2007 : VOL. 28:6, p. 825-851 |
Index terms: | total quality management managerial activities theories Turkey |
Freeterms: | discourse |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | This paper examines the discourse produced by an elite group of corporate executives to legitimate total quality management (TQM) at the national level in Turkey (here as: T). It is found that the legitimating agencies mostly used ethos justifications (as: e-justs.) exploiting the macro-cultural discourses prevalent in the T. context. It is proposed that reconstruction of imported practices is more likely to involve e-justs. when compared to the construction of the original rhetoric because of the nature of cross-national translation. |
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