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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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Making the marriage work: The benefits of strategy's takeover of entrepreneurship for strategic organization
Ted Baker,Timothy G. Pollock +1 more
TL;DR: A recent glance at the Academy of Management postings for entrepreneurship positions found that of the 157 job postings, about two-thirds also listed strategy as a teaching preference as mentioned in this paper, which is the highest of any teaching preference.
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Challenges for Management and Business Education in a “Developmental” State: The Case of South Africa
TL;DR: The purpose and quality of management and business education in universities have been subjected to an onslaught of vitriolic criticism as mentioned in this paper, and most of this conversation emanates from the global north or the global south.
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Management Theory and Social Welfare: Contributions and Challenges
Thomas M. Jones,Thomas Donaldson,R. Edward Freeman,Jeffrey S. Harrison,Carrie R. Leana,Joseph T. Mahoney,Jone L. Pearce +6 more
TL;DR: The Special Topic Forum on Management Theory and Social Welfare as discussed by the authors provides an overview of the motivation behind the special issue and highlights the contributions of the six articles that make up this forum and identifies some common themes.
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What Theory Is and Can Be: Forms of Theorizing in Organizational Scholarship:
TL;DR: Theory is at the very heart of organizational scholarship and a key criterion for evaluating the quality and contribution of our research as discussed by the authors, which is the case in many areas of organizational research.
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Corporate social responsibility in management education: Current status in Spanish universities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors made an exploratory and descriptive web-content analysis of the curriculum and subjects on Business and Management degrees at all universities in Spain and found that a high percentage of universities include CSR-related subjects on their curriculum.
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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