Introduction - Stewart R Clegg and Gill Palmer Producing Management Knowledge PART ONE: PRODUCING MANAGERS Making Up Managers - Paul du Gay Enterprise and the Ethos of Bureaucracy The Mentality of Management - Klaus P Hansen Self-Images of American Top Executives The Role of Social Identity in the International Transfer of Knowledge through Joint Ventures - John Child and Suzana Rodrigues PART TWO: COMPARATIVE CULTURAL RECIPES FOR MANAGEMENT Lean Production - Bengt Sandkull The Myth which Changes the World? The International Popularization of Entrepreneurial Ideas - Jos[ac]e Luis Alvarez Excellence at Large - Eduardo Ibarra-Colado Power, Knowledge and Organizational Forms in Mexican Universities From Cultural Imperialism to Independence - Jean-Fran[ci]cois Chanlat Francophone Resistance to Anglo-American Definitions of Management Knowledge in Qu[ac]ebec PART THREE: THE FUTURE FOR MANAGEMENT Interrogating Reframing - Ian Palmer and Richard Dunford Evaluating Metaphor-Based Analyses of Organizations Managing Sceptically - Harvie Ramsay A Critique of Organizational Fashion The Axeman Cometh - Harry Scarbrough and Gibson Burrell The Changing Roles and Knowledges of Middle Managers Management Knowledge for the Future - Stewart R Clegg et al Innovation, Embryos and New Paradigms