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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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Educating Our MBAs: On Teaching What We Haven't Taught:
TL;DR: For example, the authors asserts that we have generally failed to include "front-end" pathfinding aspects of management in our programs of management education, focusing on analytic problem solving and, to a much lesser extent, on teaching collaboration and teamwork.
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The Search for Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding
TL;DR: The tendency toward compulsive and mindless theorizing as mentioned in this paper is a disease at least as prevalent and debilitating, so it seems to me, as the one described by Oran Young, who argued forcefully against the collection of empirical materials as an end in itself and without sufficient theoretical analysis to determine appropriate criteria of selection.
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Revising the Boundaries: Management Education and Learning in a Postpositivist World
Stewart Clegg,Anne Ross-Smith +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of bounded rationality provides a premise from which one can interrogate the development of management as an academic discipline founded on the assumptions of a 'normal' science as discussed by the authors, which is the basis of our work.
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Damned by Our Own Theories: Contradictions Between Theories and Management Education
TL;DR: In economics and finance, some of the theories presently being used contradict the premises of management education as discussed by the authors, and some of these theories have been used in the management schools of universities.