Great Minds in Management
The Process of Theory Development
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 September 2005
- ISBN 9780199276813
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages616 pages
- Size 253x177x39 mm
- Weight 1225 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Numerous tables and figures 0
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Short description:
In Great Minds in Management Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt have brought together some of the most influential and original thinkers in management. Their contributions to this volume not only outline their landmark contributions to management theory, but also reflect on the process of theory development, presenting their own personal accounts of the gestation of these theories.
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In Great Minds In Management Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt have brought together some of the most influential and original thinkers in management. Their contributions to this volume not only outline their landmark contributions to management theory, but also reflect on the process of theory development, presenting their own personal accounts of the gestation of these theories.
The result is not only an ambitious and original panorama of the key ideas in management theory presented by their originators, but also a unique collection of reflections on the process of theory development, an area which to date little has been written about by those who have actually had experience of building theory.
In their concluding chapter, Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt draw together some common themes about the development of management theory over the last half a century, and suggest some of the conclusions to be drawn about how theory comes into being.
...what the book delivers is two-fold. First it provides the reader with a vista of the current management landscape featuring some of the prominent theories that have evolved in the field. Secondly it provides insights into the process of theory development through original accounts by theory developers. On both scores the book is valuable...I would recommend the book to anyone who is interested in theory building, especially to those who are keen to probe how it is accomplished in an interdisciplinary, applied field such as management.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Process of Developing Mangement Theory
Part I: Individuals and Their Environment
The Evolution of Social Cognitive Theory
Image Theory
The Road to Fairness and Beyond
Proactive Individualism
Upper Echelons Theory: Origins, Twists and Turns, and Lessons Learned
Goal Setting Theory: Theory Building by Induction
How Job Characteristics Theory Happened
Do Employee Attitudes Towards Organizations Matter? The Study of Employee Commitment to Organizations
Developing Psychological Contract Theory
The Escalation of Commitment: Steps Toward an Organizational Theory
On the Origins of Expectancy Theory
Part II: Behavior of Organizations
Double-Loop Learning in Organizations: A Theory of Action Perspective
Where Does Inequality Come From? The Personal and Intellectual Roots of Resource-Based Theory
Organizational Effectiveness: Its Demise and Re-Emergence Through Positive Organizational Scholarship
Managerial and Organizational Cognition: Islands of Coherence
Develping Theory About the Development of Theory
Managing Organizational Knowledge: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations
The Experience of Theorizing: Sensemaking as Topic and Resource
Part III: Environmental Contingencies and Organizations
The Development of Stakeholder Theory: An Idiosyncratic Approach
Developing Resouce Dependence Theory: How Theory is Affected by its Environment
Institutional Theroy: Contributing to a Theoretical Research Program
Transaction Cost Economics: The Process of Theory Development
Developing Evolutionary Theory for Economics and Management
An Evolutionary Approach to Institutions and Social Construction: Process and Structure
Conclusion
Learning How to Develop Theory from the Masters
