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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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Growing the green economy globally
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the current scientific debate about the unwarranted pre-dominance of economics in public and private decision-making; whether economics is a science or a profession and the demands by mathematicians, physicists and other scientists that the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics be delinked from the original Nobel prizes.
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Ethical Judgement in UK Business Students: Relationship with Motivation, Self-Compassion and Mental Health
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that a high proportion of respondents believed that other students would behave unethically, whilst they themselves would not, and had a high level of anxiety, extrinsic motivation and selfcompassion.
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The Art of Strategic Management: A Case-Based Exercise
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the strategic thinking process is composed of two joint, but paradigmatically distinct, activities, analysis and synthesis, whereas synthesis represents the artistic paradigm and analysis represents the scientific paradigm.
How Relevant Is the MBA? Assessing the Alignment of Required Curricula and Required Managerial
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relevancy of MBA curricula in relation to managerial competency requirements and found that behavioral competencies indicated by managers to be most critical are the very competencies least represented in required MBAs.
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Worker cooperatives: alternative governance for caring and precarious work
Daphne Berry,Myrtle P. Bell +1 more
TL;DR: Worker cooperatives provide opportunities for economic empowerment for impoverished and marginalized workers in the home care work environment as discussed by the authors, which is a significant problem in the twenty-first century US economy and it most harshly affects women, racial/ethnic minorities, and immigrants.
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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