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Features of Tradi tional Arab Management and Organization in the Jordan Business Environment

2001; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 6; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1300/j130v06n01_02

1528-7009

Adel Mahmoud Al-Rasheed,

Socioeconomic Development in MENA

Abstract Re search into Arab man age ment and or ga ni za tion is recent and en tails a con tra dic tory vi sion about what type of man age ment is found in Arab busi ness or ga ni za tions. This pa per sug gests that at this in-cip i ent stage of re search into Arab man age ment and or ga ni za tion, the pri mary ob jec tive of re search should be to ex plore the main fea tures of Arab man age ment in an at tempt to de velop Arab man age ment and ad -vance its or ga ni za tion. The pa per, based on the out come of a com par ative em pir i cal re search, takes into con sid er ation ma jor the o ret i cal and meth od olog i cal short com ings of re lated re search and at tempts to build a 'bal anced' pic ture of Arab man age ment and or ga ni za tion. Evidence in di cates that Arab man age ment and or ga ni za tion in Jor dan are, largely, tra di tional and man i fested in spe cific fea tures (lim ited future ori en ta tion and ex ces sive lack of del e ga tion of au thor ity) re flect ing on their sys tems and prac tices.