Management Studies in Crisis: Fraud, Deception and Meaningless Research

ISBN-13: 9781108727488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 312 str.

Dennis Tourish

Opis

Management research is criticised for poor research practices and not addressing important problems. Tourish proposes fundamental changes to rescue it from crisis.

Recenzje

'In the end, Dennis Tourish's Management Studies: Fraud, Deceptions and Meaningless Research provides one of the most insightful illuminations of the pathologies of Management Studies. Based on a substantial amount of evidence, case studies, and statistics, Tourish's book shows how often less than why Management Studies operates with fraud and deceptions while producing meaningless research and worthless articles in what the field calls top journals.' Thomas Klikauer and Norman Simms, Australian Universities Review

Spis treści

Introduction: the crisis in management studies; 1. Flawed from the get go: the early misadventures of management research; 2. How audit damages research and academic freedom; 3. 'When the levee breaks': academic life on the brink; 4. The corruption of academic integrity; 5. Paradise lost but not yet regained: retractions and management studies; 6. The triumph of nonsense in management studies; 7. Flawed theorising, dodgy statistics and (in) authentic leadership theory; 8. The promises, problems and paradoxes of evidence based management; 9. Reclaiming meaningful research in management studies; 10. Putting zest and purpose back into academic life.