A Life Cycle Approach to Management Fashion: An Investigation of Management Concepts in the Context of Competitive Strategy

Fink, Dietmar

doi:10.1007/bf03396665

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“…Cognition-based attitudes have been found to be influenced by both affective and cognitive antecedents (Edwards, 1990). Turning to the cognitive antecedents first, previous research indicates that the concepts and ideas that are propagated by high reputation management consultancies can become commonly accepted norms (Fink, 2003). These norms represent a firmly established element of regular business practice that affects change recipients' sense of obligation to support the changes proposed by the consultancies and, therefore, their normative commitment.…”

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What’s In The Name Of Management Consultancies? How Celebrity And Reputation Shape Intervention Effectiveness

Fink

Knoblach

2017

JABR

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Section: The Interaction Among Celebrity Reputation Commitment and mentioning

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What’s In The Name Of Management Consultancies? How Celebrity And Reputation Shape Intervention Effectiveness

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Knoblach

2017

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“…A perusal of the current management bookshelves, and the ideologies espoused by many modern management gurus and consultants, shows a vast array of management techniques. Fink (2003) refers to the employment of extremely effective rhetoric to instigate discourse, which propagates 'new ways of thinking' and 'new management principles and philosophies'. Abrahamson (1996) called 'transitory collective beliefs that certain management techniques are at the forefront of management progress' management fashions.…”

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Fundamental concepts: The solution to contemporary management problems – A sine qua non or non sequitur?

Naidoo

2004

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The last quarter of the 20th century, particularly the last decade - with the advent of more sophisticated technology, rising educational levels amongst workers and globalisation - saw the arrival of a plethora of management tools and theories; and notwithstanding the sometimes their contradictory nature; an even stronger and louder message being spread viz. that management in the 21st century would have a different face from that worn in the 20th century. This paper raises various questions: Is contemporary management theory nothing more than an accumulation of contradictory fads? Can universal management principles be extracted from the accumulated mass of information? Do the classical writers have words of wisdom to impart to the manager of the 21st century? In so doing, this paper traces a trajectory of management thought by examining the place of the seminal work of Chester I Barnard of the classical school of thought, in the light of contemporary trends and problems; and debates the currency of fundamental management principles.

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“…If we consider the question of whether a management idea is a management theory or a management trend with a long-term influence, or just a short-term management fashion we need a precise idea of the dissemination process of management ideas. There are a number of articles and books describing the timeline of big management trends (Daft, 2000;Skačkauskienė, 2022) and there are different models describing various aspects of the dissemination process (Abrahamson, 1996;Fink, 2003;Fink and Knoblach, 2008;Kieser, 1997;Kieser, 1997a;Kühl, 2016;Mazza et al, 2001;Möslein, 2005). An integrative model of the dissemination process has still not been proposed and thus a research gap may be seen to exist.…”

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Disruptive Innovation - A Consolidated Model for the Dissemination of Management Ideas

Breyer-Mayländer,

Zerres

2024

jim

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There is an ongoing debate about the use and scope of Clayton M. Christensen´s idea of disruptive innovation, including the question of whether it is a management buzz phrase or a valuable theory. This discussion considers the general question of how innovation in the field of management theories and concepts finds its way to the different target groups. This conceptual paper combines the different concepts of the creation and dissemination of management trends in a basic framework based on a short review of models for the dissemination of management ideas. This framework allows an analysis of the character of new management ideas like disruptive innovation. By measuring the impact of the theory on the academic sphere using a bibliometric statistic of the number of academic publications on Google scholar and Scopus and a meta-analysis of research papers, we show the significant influence of disruptive innovation beyond pure management fads.

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A Life Cycle Approach to Management Fashion: An Investigation of Management Concepts in the Context of Competitive Strategy

Cited by 22 publications

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What’s In The Name Of Management Consultancies? How Celebrity And Reputation Shape Intervention Effectiveness

What’s In The Name Of Management Consultancies? How Celebrity And Reputation Shape Intervention Effectiveness

Fundamental concepts: The solution to contemporary management problems – A sine qua non or non sequitur?

Disruptive Innovation - A Consolidated Model for the Dissemination of Management Ideas

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