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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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Institutions and Corporate Governance
TL;DR: The authors trace the role of institutional arguments in the current literature on corporate governance both at the firm-level and the level of the economy, pointing out linkages and ongoing debates as well as promising avenues for future research.
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Governance and the public good
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the control of power, using an account of the public good developed from Aristotle, and identify three different perspectives on the relationship between governance and the public goods: a "cybernetic" perspective, an "axiological" perspective and a perspective of "critique".
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Is Business Ethics Education Effective? An Analysis of Gender, Personal Ethical Perspectives, and Moral Judgment
Liz C. Wang,Lisa Calvano +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the main and interactive effects of gender and business ethics education on moral judgment were examined using both personal and business scenarios, and it was shown that women are generally more inclined to act ethically than men and men are less likely to respond ethically to business situations.
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Do Business Schools Value the Competencies That Businesses Value
Steven E. Abraham,Lanny A. Karns +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that although businesses and business schools essentially agree on the competencies that identify successful managers and graduates, business schools do not emphasize these competencies in their curricula, which suggests that business schools should do more to align their curriculum with the desires of businesses.
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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