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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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Academics and Practitioners Are Alike and Unlike: The Paradoxes of Academic–Practitioner Relationships
Jean M. Bartunek,Sara L. Rynes +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify and suggest ways of working with such dichotomies to foster research and theory building, and delineate several tensions associated with the gap, including differing logics, time dimensions, communication styles, rigor and relevance, and interests and incentives.
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When Does University Research Get Commercialized? Creating Ambidexterity in Research Institutions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the tensions that make it difficult for a research-oriented university to achieve commercial outcomes and develop hypotheses linking specific aspects of the organization and the individual researcher to the likelihood of their research projects generating commercial outcomes.
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The Natural Environment, Innovation, and Firm Performance: A Comparative Study
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the effect of firm-level natural-environment-related policies on innovation and financial performance in family and non-family firms and demonstrate that family firms are better able to facilitate environmentally friendly firm policies associated with improved firm innovation and greater financial performance more effectively than their nonfamily competitors.
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Defining the socially responsible leader
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that corporate leaders play a key role in formulating and implementing CSR initiatives, but debate the appropriate drivers of socially responsible decisions and actions undertaken by these leaders.
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Business Ethics and Social Responsibility Education: Shifting the Worldview
TL;DR: While the topics of business ethics and social responsibility education have received much attention in scholarly and pedagogical literature as discussed by the authors, the authors of this paper focus on the business ethics education.
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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