Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas

Management ideas and their associated applications have become a prevalent feature of our working lives. While their focus is familiar such as efficiency motivation and improvement they range from specific notions such as activity-based costing to broad movements like corporate social responsibility. This Handbook brings together some of the latest research from leading international scholars on how management ideas are produced promoted and adapted and their effects on business and working practices and society at large. <p/>Rather than focusing on specific management ideas this volume explores their key socio-political contexts and channels of dissemination and is organized around four core overlapping themes. The first section sets out the research field in general in terms of both an overall system and of different perspectives and research methods. The second section explores the role of different actors and channels of diffusion including the consumers and producers of management ideas and 'new' media as well as traditional players in the management ideas field such as consultancies and business schools. The third section focuses on specific features or dynamics of the management ideas system such as their adoption evolution institutionalisation and resurgence while in the final section critical and new perspectives on management ideas are examined highlighting specific socio-political contexts and the possibility of alternative ideas and forms of critique. <p/>With a broad range of perspectives represented this Handbook provides a comprehensive authoritative and enduring resource for those studying management innovation and organizational change as well as for those working in the management ideas industry.<br>