This book fills the gap for a text that presents a theoretically-based critique of management knowledge in an accessible form relevant to MBA students and practitioners alike. Students have to learn and digest accepted "management knowledge" and practitioners look to gurus as a source of "management
Management Knowledge: A Critical View
β Scribed by Paul Griseri (auth.)
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 289
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-iv
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-14
What is Management?....Pages 15-37
Knowledge and Utility....Pages 38-59
Distortion and Bias....Pages 60-78
Cultural Relativity in Management Research....Pages 79-93
Back Matter....Pages 94-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-101
The Positive and the Real....Pages 102-125
Management Theory as Meaning....Pages 126-148
A Postscript (to Chapters 5 and 6) which is also a Preamble (to Chapters 7 and 8)....Pages 149-152
Deconstructing Management....Pages 153-171
Research as Practice....Pages 172-188
Back Matter....Pages 189-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-194
Methodology as Mechanism....Pages 195-210
Knowledge and Action in Management Research....Pages 211-228
Evidence, Research and Learning....Pages 229-246
Management and Knowledge....Pages 247-271
Back Matter....Pages 272-273
Back Matter....Pages 274-284
β¦ Subjects
Management
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