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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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An Examination of the Effects of Flow on Learning in a Graduate-Level Introductory Operations Management Course
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effects of flow on learning outcomes in a graduate-level operations management course and found that flow affected students' perceived learning of the subject matter and student satisfaction but did not affect learning performance as measured through multiple-choice quizzes.
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Where is “Islamic marketing” heading?: A commentary on Jafari and Sandikci's (2015) “Islamic” consumers, markets, and marketing
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors raise critical questions around the emerging field of Islamic marketing, which is a rejoinder to Jafari and Sandikci's (2015) commentary on El-Bassiouny (2014).
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The Common Good of Business: Addressing a Challenge Posed by «Caritas in Veritate»
TL;DR: In this article, the authors characterize profit as the material part of the common good of business and work as the formal part that expresses the essential significance of business, and propose the concept of the "common good" as a starting point for the discussion.
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When Agents Become Stewards: Introducing Learning in the Stewardship Theory
David Pastoriza,Miguel A. Ariño +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that individuals learn in the process of interaction and can change their preferences; not necessarily feel betrayed and frustrated; and brings dynamics into the picture by introducing the learning that occurs within each agent every time they interact.
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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