Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The glocalization of organization and management : issues, dimensions, and themes / Gili S. Drori, Markus A. Höllerer, and Peter Walgenbach -- Situating glocalization : a relatively autobiographical intervention / Roland Robertson -- Revisiting glocalization -- The travel of organization / Göran Ahrne and Nils Brunsson -- Global themes and institutional ambiguity in the university field : rankings and management models on the move / Kerstin Sahlin -- Storytelling : a managerial tool and its local translations / Barbara Czarniawska -- "Re-localization" as micro-mobilization of consent and legitimacy / Renate E. Meyer -- Competition regulation in africa between global and local : a banyan tree story / Marie-Laure Djelic -- Ideas, structures, and practices -- Boomerang diffusion at a global bank : total quality management and national culture / David Strang -- Rhetorical variations in the cross-national diffusion of management practices : a comparison of Turkey and the US / Sükrü Özen -- Toward a multi-layered glocalization approach : states, multinational corporations and the transformation of gender contracts / Michal Frenkel -- Words fly quicker than actions : the globalization of the diversity discourse -- Iris Barbosa and Carlos Cabral-Cardoso -- New public management and beyond : the hybridization of public sector reforms / Tom Christensen -- Adoption and abandonment : global diffusion and local variation in university top management teams / Danielle M. Logue -- Decoding localization : a comparison of two transnational life insurance firms in China / Cheris Shun-ching Chan -- The actors -- Cosmopolitans, Harlequins, or Frankensteins? : managers enacting local, global, and glocal identities / Giuseppe Delmestri -- Personal-rule in Asia's family-controlled business groups / Michael Carney -- The glocalization of academic business studies / Lars Engwall -- Gender in times of global governance : glocalizing international norms around money and power, violence and sex in Peru / Miriam Abu-Sharkh -- Europeanization of national administrations in the Czech Republic and Poland : assessing the extent of institutional change / Christoph Knill and Jale Tosun -- From historical roots to hybrid identities : the transformation challenge of French Grandes Ecoles de Commerce / Farah Kodeih -- Governance of science in mediatized society : media rankings and the translation of global governance models for universities / Josef Pallas and Linda Wedlin -- The process of glocalization -- Micro-strategies of contextualization : glocalizing responsible investment in France and Quebec / Eva Boxenbaum and Jean-Pascal Gond -- Projecting the local into the global : trajectories of participation in transnational standard-setting / Olga Malets and Sigrid Quack -- The changing factors of ISO 9001 adoption among Korean firms / Hokyu Hwang, Yong Suk Jang, and Ki Tae Park -- The localization of carbon markets : negotiated ambiguity / Anita Engels and Lisa Knoll -- Managing illicit flows : the formation of global anti-money laundering regulations / Anja P. Jakobi -- Subsidiary initiative-taking in multinational corporations : the role of issue-selling tactics / Christoph Dörrenbächer, Florian Becker-Ritterspach, Jens Gammelgaard and Mike Geppert -- Cosmopolitanism and banal localism : the domestication of global trends in Finnish cities / Pertti Alasuutari -- Conclusion -- Empowered actors, local settings, and global rationalization / John W. Meyer.