Worlds of Management: Transregional Perspectives on Management Knowledge, 1950s–1970s. Introduction Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen / Lukas Becht / Florian Peters / Vítězslav Sommer* Abstracts Management has been considered a key signifier for understanding capitalist industrial societ- ies of the Global North. This special issue argues for a decentred and transregional approach to management knowledge and shifts the focus to management in the centrally planned econo- mies of Eastern and South-eastern Europe as well as in “developing” economies of the Global South. The contributions shed light on the significant role that managerial knowledge played in socialist planning, Cold War entanglements, and development policies. Instead of reiterating the story of Western capitalism conquering the world, they show how managerial knowledge circulated in polycentric networks across East-West-South divides and shaped economic prac- tices in close conjunction with locally situated discourses about efficiency and productivity. There was not one world of management; there were manifold worlds of management. Management gilt als Schlüsselbegriff für das Verständnis der kapitalistischen Industriegesell- schaften des globalen Nordens. Dieses Heft plädiert für eine dezentrale und transregionale Per- spektive auf Managementwissen und verlagert den Fokus auf Management in den zentralen Planwirtschaften Ost- und Südosteuropas sowie in den „Entwicklungs“-Volkswirtschaften des Globalen Südens. Die Beiträge beleuchten die bedeutende Rolle, die Managementwissen in der sozialistischen Planung, den Verflechtungen des Kalten Krieges und der Entwicklungspolitik Comparativ | Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 33 (2023) 5/6, S. 590–602. DOI: 10.26014/j.comp.2023.05-06.01 * Vítězslav Sommer’s contribution to this special issue was made possible with support for the long-term con- ceptual development of the research organization Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Development of Research Organization (RVO) number 68378114.