Developing Managers: The Functional, the Symbolic, the Sacred and the Profane
批判分析了英国一家跨国公司的文化传递与管理发展实践，揭示了文化传递如何实现管理发展目标，而管理发展又成为传递企业价值观的载体，这一循环由企业意识形态维持。
This paper offers a new perspective on international management by examining the role of culture and management development in creating international expertise, a sense of identity and realizing organizational control. A critical analysis of the culture transmission and management development philosophy and practice of a UK-based transnational reveals how the transmission of culture accomplishes management development objectives, while management development itself serves as a vehicle for the transmission of the desired corporate values. This recursiveness is sustained by a corporate ideology that urges the creation of integrative values and, in turn, is legitimized by the quest for favorable functional and symbolic consequences.