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Bad Management Theories Are Destroying Good Management Practices
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In this article, the authors argue that academic research related to the conduct of business and management has had some very significant and negative influences on the practice of management, and that these influences have had a negative impact on the management practice.Abstract:
This article argues that academic research related to the conduct of business and management has had some very significant and negative influences on the practice of management. These influences ha...read more
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Innovation in international business research: a call for multiple paradigms
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TL;DR: In this article, a general and critical approach to complexity is introduced, where complex systems are viewed as irreducible, and since complex systems cannot be fully modelled, any engagement with complexity necessitates a critical engagement with the limits and status of our knowledge claims.
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An Evidence-Based Perspective on HRD:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the recent emergence of evidence-based approaches to HRD practice by discussing their relevance to organizational leaders, managers, HRD practitioners, and other HR professionals concerned with bringing about effective and beneficial organizational change and development.
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Shareholder Primacy, Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Role of Business Schools
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the role of business schools in promoting the shareholder primacy norm (SPN) as a widely acknowledged impediment to corporate social responsibility, and propose two ways by which the influence of the SPN among managers might be attenuated: extending fiduciary duties of executives to non-shareholder stakeholders and changing business school teaching such that it covers a plurality of conceptions of the purpose of the corporation.
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A Review of Management and Importance of E-Commerce Implementation in Service Delivery of Private Express Enterprises of China:
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The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and the Organizational Advantage
Janine Nahapiet,Sumantra Ghoshal +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model that incorporates this overall argument in the form of a series of hypothesized relationships between different dimensions of social capital and the main mechanisms and proces.
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Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization
Armen A. Alchian,Harold Demsetz +1 more