{"title":"Instrumental Understanding of Management Ideas","authors":"K. Røvik","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794219.013.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794219.013.24","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the instrumental status of management ideas through the lenses of three theoretical perspectives. While from the modernistic–rationalistic perspective, management ideas are conceived of as tools, they are also frequently described as legitimizing elements or fashions viewed from the social constructionist–symbolic perspective. However, seen from a pragmatic perspective—this chapter’s main analytical frame—the instrumental quality of a management idea cannot be decided upon a priori, as if it were a distinct property of each idea. Instead, the implementation phase stands out as critical for the shaping of management ideas. A pragmatic lens, such as offered by translation theory, helps to identify a range of possible trajectories of initiatives to implement management ideas. Some lead to instrumentalization and practical use, while others do not. It is argued that translation theory has the potential to guide practitioners’ efforts to instrumentalize management ideas.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126176385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Lifecycle of Management Ideas","authors":"Eric Abrahamson, Alessandro Piazza","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter distinguishes five stages in the lifecycle of management ideas: innovation, diffusion, institutionalization, dormancy, and rebirth. Research at each stage can help research at other stages. It also examines the lifecycle stages of both abstract and specific management ideas. Studying these simultaneously can help address some of the most resilient and enduring questions about each. Finally, the authors conceptualize the conjunction of forces which must co-occur to cause stage transitions. They do so to avoid drawing conclusions about why transitions happen when the same conclusions might be drawn when they do not.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"7 7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115391839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thought Leaders and Followers","authors":"Christopher Wright","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.13","url":null,"abstract":"Consultants and advisers are often key actors in the development, dissemination, and application of management ideas. However, while consultants and their critics have stressed their masterly role as management ‘thought leaders’, critical researchers have highlighted a more nuanced understanding of their activities and impact, stressing both the more mundane aspects of consultancy advice and the significant challenges they face as knowledge brokers. This chapter reviews the now extensive literature on management consulting and outlines the ways in which consultants have sought to innovate and legitimize different aspects of management knowledge, as well as the emerging challenges that they now face. These include not only a more knowledgeable management clientele, but also the ability of consultants and advisers to meaningfully engage with the profound political, social, and environmental challenges of the twenty-first century world.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125766592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multinational and Transnational Organizations","authors":"P. Kern, P. Almond, T. Edwards, Olga Tregaskis","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.15","url":null,"abstract":"Multinational corporations (MNCs) are important players in the diffusion of management ideas, knowledge, and norms across borders because of pressures to standardize practices as much as possible, while adapting to local differences as much as necessary. The international management literature increasingly highlights the important role of individuals within those MNCs in cross-border norm diffusion, but we still lack an integrated approach to these ‘globalizing actors’ and their activities. This chapter discusses international management research related to knowledge transfer in MNCs, international assignments, and global elites and considers its contributions and limitations in terms of aiding our understanding of globalizing actors in relation to management ideas. Arguing that this work holds important insights, but says little about how actors mobilize their skills and resources to navigate complex environments, the authors draw on a more diverse range of research to bring context and person back into focus.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125220521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methods for the Study of Management Ideas","authors":"D. Strang, C. Wittrock","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.8","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter surveys methodologies employed in the study of management ideas. It emphasizes the field’s rich variety of data collection, measurement, and inferential strategies. To map this landscape, the authors group studies by the number of cases they examine, from large N event history analyses based on archival data to ethnographies of a single organization. They give particular attention to bibliometrics and discourse analysis because these methods grapple with the interpretive and communicative processes that are central to management ideas and because techniques for capturing and analysing text are currently being revolutionized across the social sciences.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132253131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Business Media","authors":"M. Barros, Charles-Clemens Rüling","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794219.013.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794219.013.12","url":null,"abstract":"Based on an overview of previous literature on business media, which shows a substantial degree of fragmentation, this chapter proposes an integrative theoretical framework using the concept of media logic defined as the technological, cultural, and organizational features that influence how management ideas are produced, distributed, and consumed. Considering the recent technological changes brought on by social media, the role of business media cannot be understood without considering the effects of transmediality and multimodality. Defined respectively as the movement of content through different types of media, these elements have an important impact on the nature of management ideas. The authors question the predominance of well-bounded ideas in a new technological convergence context with increasing loss of gatekeeping control to user-generated content. They propose that a renewed set of theoretical frameworks and methodological tools will allow business media research to understand the contemporary evolution of management ideas.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"231 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121407495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Directions for Research on Management Ideas","authors":"Andrew Sturdy, H. Heusinkveld, T. Reay, D. Strang","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.30","url":null,"abstract":"This short chapter draws together selected insights and views from the various contributions to the handbook in order to consider avenues for further research into management ideas. In particular, the need to make diverse empirical, theoretical, disciplinary, methodological, and conceptual linkages is outlined. Also, emergent themes are identified which include the familiar and important concerns with identifying the impact of management ideas. In addition, debates on possible academic engagement with practitioners in the field along with calls to extend beyond conventional contexts and approaches are discussed. The conclusion reflects briefly on the possibility for extending the reach of studies related to management ideas.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121365724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Management Techniques","authors":"A. Werr, P. Walgenbach","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794219.013.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794219.013.5","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reviews research on management techniques—formal procedures for carrying out a management task. It identifies three main streams of research—a functionalist stream, viewing management techniques as best practices; an institutionalist stream, where management techniques are symbols of rationality; and an emerging practice-based stream, focusing on how management techniques come to be used in, and influence, managerial work. This line of research investigates management techniques as affordances to agents in organizations, and it is through this interaction with organizational agency that management techniques shape organizational processes (e.g. strategizing and consulting) and individual managers (e.g. uncertainty reduction). In this view, management techniques are found to play important roles in facilitating communication and knowledge creation in organizations, creating confidence and motivation for action, and reducing uncertainty for individual actors.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129108001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Management Ideas in Everyday Life","authors":"P. Hancock, Melissa Tyler","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.25","url":null,"abstract":"Management ideas, especially those underpinned by the principles of formal rationality, are no longer confined to the workplace, but appear to be having a significant influence on people’s everyday lives. In large part, this is due to the content and popularity of lifestyle magazines, self-improvement literature, and the increasing ubiquity of personal technologies that claim to make us more efficient and effective. At the same time, those who manage us within organizations are also taking a greater interest in our personal activities, habits, and well-being. This chapter critically explores these developments along with the media through which modern management ideas play an increasing role in how we are told we should think and behave. From the early days of domestic management books to the contemporary fascination with the possibility of a fully quantified self, the authors interrogate the ubiquity of management ideas as a guide to everyday life.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"55 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130510347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding and Analysing Resistance to Management Ideas","authors":"S. Ciuk, McCabe Darren, Russell Stephanie","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.19","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents three approaches towards analysing workplace resistance to management ideas. The first (industrial relations) has primarily focused on union resistance. The second (labour process theory) considers individual and collective resistance in a context of antagonism between labour and capital. The third (post-structuralism) has sought to introduce subjectivity and identity into the analysis. The chapter gives a brief contextual sketch of resistance to management ideas before presenting the three approaches. It then considers ‘productive’ resistance, which suggests that resistance can facilitate organizational change, and examines whether this position can be considered to constitute a fourth approach. The authors conclude that it would be premature to do so because (1) it is under-explored, (2) it contains different strands, and (3) it shares similarities with previous approaches. Nevertheless, it helps to open up promising avenues for future research and some of these research directions in resistance to management ideas are considered.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134292994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}