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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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Strategic corporate responsibility orientation for sustainable global health governance: pharmaceutical value co-protection in transitioning economies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the institutional foundations of value cocreation through cross-sector social interactions (CSSIs) and global health diplomacy (GHD), and developed a value parliament as a metaphor to explain how the decision makers' application of rational technologies in model-based decision making conflicts with emotions (which avoid decision paralysis), beliefs, identities and political allegiances to swing the pendulum in favour of the dominant group of decision makers.
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“Reading” Evidence-Based Management: The Possibilities of Interpretation
TL;DR: In this paper, an important consequence of moving evidence-based management into the classroom is that through our students we are exposed to the effects of reading academic research on those who are not part of
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Relevance and creativity through design-driven action research: Introducing pragmatic adequacy
TL;DR: In this article, a meta-synthesis of seminal voices on the relevance gap, the abyss between management science and management practice, and on remedies proposed is presented, and the notion of pragmatic adequacy is introduced to explain how design-driven action research approaches can reduce the importance gap, facilitate change and enhance creativity.
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Rigor, relevancia y retos de la academia en administración: tensiones entre investigación y formación profesional
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Rethinking agency theory in developing countries: A case study of Pakistan
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate if agency theory effectively explains agency conflict in the context of a developing country namely, Pakistan and find that there is no variation in risk preferences of principals (minority shareholders) and agents (majority shareholders).
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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