International and Comparative Business

Leo McCann is Professor of Organisation Studies at Manchester Business School. His research and teaching focuses on the impacts of large-scale economic change on work and organization across numerous countries. He has written many articles on the subject of the international transformation of white-collar work in journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, and Organization Studies. He is the co-author of Managing in the Modern Corporation(Cambridge University Press, 2009), a major empirical study into the restructuring of white-collar work in the UK, USA and Japan. His research draws on the paradigms of sociology of work, varieties of capitalism, and political economy, exploring how large-scale ‘global’ transformations are translated through national institutional structures with often profound effects on the everyday lives of organizations, managers, workers and citizens. He is also the author of International and Comparative Business: Foundations of Political Economies (Sage Publications, 2014), a textbook based on over a decade of experience teaching and researching comparative capitalism, globalization, and the restructuring of organizations and work.

• Introducing the FieldTheorizing Varieties of CapitalismThe USA: The World′s Foremost Economic, Political and Military PowerUnited Kingdom: A Problematic Triumph of Finance over IndustryFrance: Powerful Traditions Turning to Radical ChangeGermany: Europe′s Production MachineNordic Economies: The Employee Dignity AgendaRussia and the Former Soviet Union: The Radical Adoption, Creation and Abandonment of ModelsIndia: A Turbulent TransformationChina: Multiple Models Amid Growth and ChangeJapan: The World′s Second Most Prominent Economic ModelConclusions

′Erudite and accessible, Leo McCann′s exploration of the globalizing world economy stands out in its astute recognition of the continuing power of nationally specific forms of capitalism. Far from being a one-size-fits-all Anglo-American template, neoliberalism comes in many different hues and variations. Offering a comprehensive overview of European and Asian business models, McCann demonstrates how the national gets reconfigured around the global without losing some of its unique features. International and Comparative Business is by far the best textbook in the field and is destined to become a classic for years to come′