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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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Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art
Bidhan L. Parmar,R. Edward Freeman,Jeffrey S. Harrison,Andrew C. Wicks,Lauren Purnell,Simone de Colle +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the major uses and adaptations of stakeholder theory across a broad array of disciplines such as business ethics, corporate strategy, finance, accounting, management, and marketing are reviewed.
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Entrepreneurship and Dynamic Capabilities: A Review, Model and Research Agenda
TL;DR: In this paper, a definition of dynamic capabilities, separating them from substantive capabilities as well as from their antecedents and consequences, is proposed, and a set of propositions that outline how substantive capabilities and dynamic capabilities are related to one another, how this relationship is moderated by organizational knowledge and skills, and how organizational age affects the speed of utilization of dynamic capability and the learning mode used in organizational change.
The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, 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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The Social Psychology of Groups
TL;DR: The Social Psychology of Groups as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the field of family studies, where the authors introduced, defined, and illustrated basic concepts in an effort to explain the simplest of social phenomena, the two-person relationship.
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Commonalities and contradictions in HRM and performance research
TL;DR: In this paper, an overview of what the authors believe to be every empirical research article into the linkages between HRM and performance published in pre-eminent international refereed journals between 1994 and 2003 is presented.
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The Challenge of Problem-Oriented Research:
TL;DR: This paper pointed out that the better work in the field of organizational knowledge has come from problem-oriented rather than from theory-oriented research, and seven suggestions for how best to do behavioral research are offered.
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Managing the dream : reflections on leadership and change
Warren G. Bennis,Tom Peters +1 more
TL;DR: The Managing the Dream as mentioned in this paper is an intimate portrait of leadership, comprising over a dozen essays that represent the author's most incisive and creative thinking, including "The End of Leadership" and a new preface reflecting on the challenge of leadership in the new millennium.
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Ideology and the theory of financial economics
TL;DR: The authors argue that both the ontology and the epistemology of financial economics are decidedly value-impregnated, however well the methodology masquerades as perfectly objective, and argue that scientists (researchers) recognize the ubiquity of ideology in finance and admit and understand the values implicit in its neoclassical methodology.