Management Knowledge: A Critical View

ISBN-13: 9780333770948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 284 str.

Paul Griseri

Opis

This book fills the gap for a text which presents a theoretically-based critique of management knowledge but in an accessible form which is 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 knowledge' without any appreciation of how secure these ideas may be.

This book will therefore be relevant to both students and practitioners in questioning how far management research actually leads to genuine knowledge of organizations.

Spis treści

Introduction.- PART ONE: THE IDEA OF MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE.- What is Management?.- Knowledge and Utility.- Distortion and Bias.- Cultural Relativity in Management Research.- PART TWO: FOUR CHARACTERISTIC RESEARCH PARADIGMS.- The Positive and the Real.- Management Theory as Meaning.- Deconstructing Management.- Research as Practice.- PART THREE: THE COMPONENTS OF MANAGEMENT RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES.- Methodology as Mechanism.- Knowledge and Action in Management Research.- Evidence, Research and Learning.- Management and Knowledge.- Bibliography.

O autorze

PAUL GRISERI is a freelance management writer and teacher. He is also a part-time lecturer at University College London