1996
DOI: 10.2307/258636
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“…Indeed, according to Abrahamson (1991Abrahamson ( , 1996, the dissemination of management techniques is often based on fads and fashions of indeterminate efficiency. In this perspective, the meaning and purpose of the standard is focused on external legitimacy rather than technical effectiveness.…”
Section: The Legitimacy-based Model: a Managerial Fashion To Conformmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Indeed, according to Abrahamson (1991Abrahamson ( , 1996, the dissemination of management techniques is often based on fads and fashions of indeterminate efficiency. In this perspective, the meaning and purpose of the standard is focused on external legitimacy rather than technical effectiveness.…”
Section: The Legitimacy-based Model: a Managerial Fashion To Conformmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Drawing on neo-institutional approaches, the legitimacy-based model questions the role of managerial measures to improve performance. These measures represent first and foremost "fads and fashion" (Abrahamson, 1991(Abrahamson, , 1996 aimed at improving corporate image and responding to external institutional pressures through a symbolic rather than a substantive implementation of ISO 14001 (Christmann and Taylor, 2006). In this context, improvements in environmental performance result mainly from concrete operational activities (product and process redesign, reduction and recycling of materials, etc.)…”
Section: The Legitimacy-based Model: a Managerial Fashion To Conformmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…W jednej z najważniejszych prac z tego zakresu Abrahamson [1996] wskazuje, że dyskurs na temat dyfuzji innowacji może być prowadzony z kilku różnych perspektyw, gdyż analizując źródła dyfuzji innowacji, badacze mogą przyjmować odmienne założenia o racjonalności wyborów organizacyjnych. wdrażania innowacji.…”
Section: Teoria Dyfuzji Innowacji Abrahamsona I Jej Ewolucjaunclassified
“…4 Abrahamson's work on management fashions (Abrahamson, 1996(Abrahamson, , 1997Abrahamson and Fairchild, 1999) suggests some insights into managerial impetus for EIP. First, EIP would be classed as a 'normative' rather than a 'rational' rhetoric for managing employees as it 'can render employees more productive by shaping their thoughts and capitalising on their emotions' (Abrahamson, 1997: 493) by satisfying their needs [including for a 'voice' in the workolaceL Abrahamson hypothesised, and found in his studies counting academic and popular business press articles, that discourses advocating normative techniques have tended to emerge at the end of the upswing of a Kondratieff long wave, just before the downswing.…”
Section: Notes 1 To Illustrate Whatmentioning
confidence: 99%