The adoption and modification of management ideas in organizations: towards an analytical framework

✍ Scribed by Aminu Mamman

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 148 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1086-1718
• DOI: 10.1002/jsc.608

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

For many years, the idea of modifying management ideas to fit organizational and cultural contexts has been widely advocated. However, theories and models that would help to achieve this objective have not received the attention they deserve. Critiques of modification of management ideas argue that ideas are sometimes modified beyond recognition. Implicit in this criticism is the suggestion that modification of ideas is inappropriate.

This paper argues that such views are not only unhelpful but also dangerous if organizations are led to assume that management ideas are universally applicable irrespective of organizational context.

It also states the need to accept the fact that modification of ideas is inevitable given the diversity of organizational contexts.

The paper presents an analytical framework to explain the adoption and modification of management ideas in organizations.

Finally, it advocates the need for fashion‐setters of management ideas to produce them in versions to accommodate the diversity of organizations.

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