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    Great Minds in Management by Smith, Ken G.; Hitt, Michael A.;

    The Process of Theory Development

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 5 July 2007

    • ISBN 9780199276820
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages616 pages
    • Size 244x170x34 mm
    • Weight 976 g
    • Language English
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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. They not only outline their landmark contributions to management theory, but also reflect on the process of theory development, giving their 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.

    Contributors:

    Chris Argyris, Albert Bandura, Jay B. Barney, Lee R. Beach, Kim Cameron, Michael R. Darby, Robert Folger, R. Edward Freeman, Michael Frese, J. Richard Hackman, Donald C. Hambrick, Michael A. Hitt, Anne S. Huff, Gary P. Latham, Edwin A. Locke, Henry Mintzberg, Terrence R. Mitchell, Richard T. Mowday, Ikujiro Nonaka, Greg R. Oldham, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Lyman W. Porter, Denise M. Rousseau, W. Richard Scott, Ken G. Smith, Barry M. Staw, Richard M. Steers, Victor H. Vroom, Karl E. Weick, Oliver E. Williamson, Sidney G. Winter, and Lynn Zucker,

    Review from previous edition The contributors to this volume are truly "great minds in management"... this volume should be read by all aspiring scholars and is well worth inclusion in management doctoral seminars.

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    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

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