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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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Moral Identity as Leverage Point in Teaching Business Ethics
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Agency theory and performance appraisal: How bad theory damages learning and contributes to bad management practice:
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Leading IT-Enabled Change Inside Ericsson A Transformation Into a Global Network of Shared Service Centres
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The transcendent influence of spirituality on ethical action in organizations
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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
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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
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