The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas

This Handbook provides an up to date, enduring, and authoritative account of the field of research on management ideas. It addresses questions of where management ideas come from, how they are produced, promoted and used, and their effect on business and working practices.

Management ideas, and their associated applications, have become a prevalent feature of our working lives. While their focus is familiar, such as efficiency, motivation, and improvement, they range from specific notions such as activity-based costing, to broad movements like corporate social responsibility. This Handbook brings together some of the latest research from leading international scholars on how management ideas are produced, promoted, and adapted, and their effects on business and working practices and society at large.

Rather than focusing on specific management ideas, this volume explores their key socio-political contexts and channels of dissemination, and is organized around four core overlapping themes. The first section sets out the research field in general, in terms of both an overall system and of different perspectives and research methods. The second section explores the role of different actors and channels of diffusion, including the consumers and producers of management ideas and 'new' media, as well as traditional players in the management ideas field such as consultancies and business schools. The third section focuses on specific features or dynamics of the management ideas system, such as their adoption, evolution, institutionalisation, and resurgence, while in the final section, critical and new perspectives on management ideas are examined, highlighting specific socio-political contexts and the possibility of alternative ideas and forms of critique.

With a broad range of perspectives represented, this Handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and enduring resource for those studying management, innovation, and organizational change, as well as for those working in the management ideas industry.

This volume offers the best treatment of the managerial system of ideas from conceptual, methodological, and empirical perspectives. The contributors span the entire field of management. An essential reference book for everyone interested in understanding how managers think and act.

Auteur
Andrew Sturdy is Professor of Management and Organisation at the University of Bristol, UK. Previously, he held posts at Imperial College London and the Universities of Bath, Melbourne and Warwick. His research lies mostly in the field of organisational innovation and the role of management consultancy. His work includes co-authored books such as Beyond Organisational Change (Macmillan), Management Consultancy (Oxford University Press) and Management as Consultancy (Cambridge University Press). He is an associate editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry and a Visiting Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). His latest work explores consultancy in national and transnational public sector contexts, including the UK National Health Service. Stefan Heusinkveld is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management and Organization, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). His research concentrates on the production and consumption of management ideas with a special interest in studying the role of professions and occupations, management gurus, and the business media. He has published on these topics in several journals such as British Journal of Management and Journal of Management Studies. His work also includes books such as The Management Idea Factory (Routledge), and The Flow of Management Ideas (Cambridge University Press). He is lead coordinator of the EGOS Standing Working Group on 'Management, Occupations and Professions in Social Context'. Trish Reay is Professor in Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Alberta School of Business in Edmonton, Canada. She also holds a Visiting Distinguished Professor appointment at Warwick Business School. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief at Organization Studies. Her research interests include qualitative research methods, organizational and institutional change, professions, and professional identity. She studies these topics in the context of health care and family firms. Published articles from these research streams appear in Academy of Management Journal, Organization Studies, and Journal of Management Studies. David Strang is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. His research has focused on the spread of practices in the business, political, and scientific worlds. He has developed statistical methods for the study of diffusion within an event history framework and agent-based models for the simulation of booms and busts in managerial fashion. Strang is author of Learning by Example: Imitation and Innovation at a Global Bank (Princeton, 2010) and has published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, American Journal of Sociology and Organization Studies. He has held visiting appointments at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, INSEAD, Oxford, the University of Amsterdam, and Tel Aviv University, and received a Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford.

Contenu

• Researching Management Ideas: An Introduction

• Understanding Management Ideas

• 1: Michael J. Mol, Nicolai Foss, and Julian Birkinshaw: The System of Management Ideas: Origins, Microfoundations, and Dynamics

• 2: Eric Abrahamson and Alessandro Piazza: The Lifecycle of Management Ideas: Innovation, Diffusion, Institutionalization, Dormancy, and Rebirth

• 3: Joe O'Mahoney: The Philosophy Of Management Ideas

• 4: David Strang and Christian Wittrock: Methods for the Study of Management Ideas

• 5: Andreas Werr and Peter Walgenbach: Management Techniques

• 6: Kjell Arne Røvik: Instrumental Understanding Of Management Ideas

• Actors

• 7: Christopher Wright: Thought Leaders and Followers: The Impact of Consultants and Advisers on Management Ideas

• 8: Lars Engwall and Linda Wedlin: Business Studies and Management Ideas

• 9: Philipp Kern, Phil Almond, Tony Edwards, and Olga Tregaskis: Multinational and Transnational Organisations: The Role Of Globalizing Actors

• 10: Marcos Barros and Charles-Clemens Rüling: Business Media: From Gatekeeping to Transmediality

• 11: David Collins: Management's Gurus

• 12: Suleika Bort and Alfred Kieser: The Consumers and Co-Producers of Management Ideas

• Processes

• 13: Patrick Reinmoeller, Shaz Ansari, and Mohit Mehta: The Re-adoption Of Management Ideas: How They Come, How They Go, And Why Some Come Back

• 14: Jos Benders, Marlieke van Grinsven, and Jonas A. Ingvaldsen: The Persistence of Management Ideas: How Framing Keeps 'Lean' Moving

• 15: Hannele Seeck and Juha-Antti Lamberg: Evolving Management Ideas

• 16: Hélène Giroux: Popular Management Ideas

• 17: Richard Whittington and Deborah Anderson: Professional Structures and Practice Change: Institutionalization Processes in Accounting and Strategy

• 18: Andreas Rasche and David Seidl: Management Ideas as Standards

• 19: Darren McCabe, Sylwia Ciuk, and Stephanie Russell: Understanding and Analysing Resistance to Management Ideas

• 20: Christopher Wickert, Jost Sieweke, and Riku Ruotsalainen: The Performance Implications of Management Ideas

• Contexts

• 21: Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic: The (Geo)-Politics of Management Ideas - Three Moments in the Trajectory of an Instrument of Power

• 22: Shawn Pope and Patricia Bromley: Management Ideas and the Social Construction of Organizations

• 23: Pramodita Sharma and Sanjay Sharma: The Role of Family Firms in Corporate Sustainability

• 24: Michael Reed: Managing Public Service Professionals under New Public Managemen…