{"title":"Alternatives to Management Ideas","authors":"Martin Parker","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.27","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that ‘management ideas’ are distinct from ideas about organization more generally. It suggests that the reduction of the latter to the former is an ideological move that encourages us to believe that there are no alternatives to management, as if all forms of organization were necessarily managerial. The aim is to reclaim organizing from those who claim expertise in management, and instead insist that we treat organizing as a form of politics. Using a case study of an English worker’s co-operative as an example, the chapter argues that attention to the politics of organizing should mean that questions of collectivism and the common good have to be balanced against ideas about autonomy and difference. The resulting forms of organization then need to be aimed at the service of the future, always in the knowledge that any form of organization is itself a form of politics made durable.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"3 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":"125611368","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 Persistence of Management Ideas","authors":"J. Benders, M. V. Grinsven, J. A. Ingvaldsen","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.4","url":null,"abstract":"The popularity of management ideas varies according to time and place, as exemplified by the term ‘management fashion’, but only a small number of ideas appear to stay on the scene for a long period of time. Using the example of the still durable idea ‘Lean’, the authors argue that repeated (re)framing of a management idea is an important driver for its persistence. The way the interpretive space of ideas is created, used, and continuously reframed is key to their resilience or disappearance, and needs to be understood by change managers as well as academics interested in their flow and impact.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"35 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":"124037671","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 Re-Adoption of Management Ideas","authors":"Patrick Reinmoeller, S. Ansari, M. Mehta","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794219.013.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794219.013.17","url":null,"abstract":"The adoption of management ideas requires substantial resources. Most research focuses on a single adoption of ideas, how they come into use and fall out of use. Although some new management ideas ‘come back’, and have a ‘second life’ or even a ‘third life’, how and why they are re-adopted needs further exploration. This chapter explores the re-adoption of self-organization and identifies four drivers of re-adoption, explaining how external and internal conditions, technological change, and employee experience can shape the (re)action to management ideas. It concludes by outlining opportunities for future research avenues.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"31 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":"128495089","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 System of Management Ideas","authors":"M. Mol, J. Birkinshaw, N. Foss","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794219.013.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794219.013.3","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that there is a system of management ideas, that is, a set of institutionalized high level heuristics that guide organizational and individual behaviours in managerial reality, involve distinct knowledge that is transferred across time and space, may change as a result of local adaptation or innovation, and may be selected for or against. This system operates at multiple levels, particularly the individual, organizational, and institutional levels. A system of management ideas can be analysed through a micro-foundational approach, where actions of individual agents lead to an evolution of the system through processes of variation, selection, and retention. This approach is applied to the organizational level choice of adopting existing, fashionable management practices versus creating novel management practices. The authors present a process model depicting this make-or-buy choice in management practices and provide insights into why and when organizations choose each of these routes.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"53 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":"123493265","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":"Managing Public Service Professionals Under New Public Management","authors":"M. Reed","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.23","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the effects of management ideas. In particular, it examines the transformation of the work situation of public service professionals generated by the core ideas associated with New Public Management (NPM). This change creatively absorbed management ideas such as ‘culture’, ‘leadership’, and ‘network’ and, overall, represented a paradigm shift in the meaning and relevance of ‘public service’. While NPM has undergone a series of reformulations—as technocratic, managerial, and neo-liberal—it continues to shape the institutional landscape in which public service professionals are embedded. In doing so, it presents them with a series of existential challenges to their occupational authority and identity that threaten to undermine their organizational power and control.","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":"124958950","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 Studies and Management Ideas","authors":"L. Engwall, Linda Wedlin","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.14","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the role of business studies in the diffusion of management ideas. It deals first with the development of academic institutions for business studies and the content they disseminate. Second, it elaborates on the interplay between these institutions on the one hand, and consultants, media, and practice on the other. Third, it discusses the increase in public scrutiny of business education programmes, and the role such scrutiny plays in reinforcing the diffusion of management ideas. Fourth, it considers alternatives to academic business studies such as non-academic training and corporate universities and their role in translating or editing management ideas. Finally, the chapter provides conclusions and points out areas for future research.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"71 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":"126349413","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":"Popular Management Ideas","authors":"Hélène Giroux","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.2","url":null,"abstract":"A number of research articles focus on popular management ideas, but very few discuss or even define what is meant by ‘popular’. This is the main goal of this chapter. Three meanings are outlined: popularity as emergence, popularity as genre, and popularity as ownership. In the first meaning of emergence, popularity is a matter of prevalence and frequency resulting from collective choice. In the second, popularity as genre is related to intrinsic characteristics of texts and discourse. In the third meaning, ownership indicates that popularity is a matter of origin, stemming from ordinary people or the masses. Each meaning is related to observations regarding management fashions. The chapter also discusses how other streams of research could clarify how popular management ideas have been investigated and conceptualized.","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":"123001003","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":"Evolving Management Ideas","authors":"H. Seeck, Juha-Antti Lamberg","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.1","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reviews the different conceptualizations of ‘the’ historical development of management ideas. It focuses on three approaches to the evolution of research on management ideas: (1) mainstream, (2) embedded, and (3) critical alternatives. The mainstream is the most dominant approach, both in research and in textbooks of management, while the embedded approach is increasingly popular among institutionally oriented researchers. A key suggestion is that it is also important to find and follow less researched avenues in the evolution of management ideas, such as the critical alternatives approach, drawing on forgotten and marginalized discourses. The authors explicate limitations and research opportunities emerging from the three approaches and seek to motivate researchers to look for new research directions in the study of management ideas.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"1 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":"132115341","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’s Gurus","authors":"D. Collins","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794219.013.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794219.013.11","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers a critical examination of management’s gurus. It argues that there is a need to take these actors seriously because their preferred representations of the world of work have served to alter quite fundamentally how we think about, talk about, and practise the work of management. Noting difficulties associated with attempts to personify—or to name and acclaim—the gurus, the author offers an analysis of the deeper structure of ‘guru theory’ which, he suggests, persists even as individual gurus come and go. The author then proceeds to offer an analysis of the ‘guru industry’ which has grown up to provide critical reflections on the ways and means of the gurus. The chapter concludes with an account of more recent analytical developments which, in an attempt to consider the full cycle of ‘guru theory’, have examined ‘guru speak’.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"55 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":"124986998","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":"Performance Implications of Management Ideas","authors":"C. Wickert, J. Sieweke, R. Ruotsalainen","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198794219.013.20","url":null,"abstract":"Consultants and business gurus have stressed the positive implications of management ideas for performance. However, the evidence on whether management ideas lead to superior performance remains ambiguous. This chapter scrutinizes the link between management ideas and performance. It begins by reviewing research on technological resources-focused ideas, human resources-focused ideas, relational resources-focused ideas, and knowledge resources-focused ideas and shows that there is empirical support for a positive relationship between management ideas and organizational performance. However, this positive link only materializes and holds under certain conditions, which complicate the efforts of managers and organizations to reap the benefits of management ideas. The authors discuss two of these complications: the ‘performance dilemmas of management ideas’ and the ‘sustainability paradox of management ideas’. The chapter ends with a discussion of avenues for future research.","PeriodicalId":254439,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas","volume":"15 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":"114827555","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}