scholarly journals Debating the Ambiguous Enterprise of Management

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Hardy ◽  
Gill Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Management Education ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
The Many

AbstractThere are significant ambiguities surrounding the academic discipline of management, which can be analysed in terms of three major debates. First the professional status of management brings with it questions about restriction or access to management education, the control of curricular and the relative importance of basic, applied and consultancy-driven research. Second, there are debates about the changing nature of management research, which require the accomodation of increasing diversity within management theory. Finally, the ambiguities associated with these debates can be seen to have impacted on the development of management education, its accessibility and diversity. The ambiguities associated with these debates must be carefully managed if the discipline is to prosper. New organisational forms are needed to embed management teaching and research within the complex collaborative relationships of the many stakeholders involved.

scholarly journals Debating the Ambiguous Enterprise of Management

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Hardy ◽  
Gill Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Management Education ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
The Many

AbstractThere are significant ambiguities surrounding the academic discipline of management, which can be analysed in terms of three major debates. First the professional status of management brings with it questions about restriction or access to management education, the control of curricular and the relative importance of basic, applied and consultancy-driven research. Second, there are debates about the changing nature of management research, which require the accomodation of increasing diversity within management theory. Finally, the ambiguities associated with these debates can be seen to have impacted on the development of management education, its accessibility and diversity. The ambiguities associated with these debates must be carefully managed if the discipline is to prosper. New organisational forms are needed to embed management teaching and research within the complex collaborative relationships of the many stakeholders involved.

Promoting Management Education in China Through Developing Practice-Based Management Theories: An Interview With Practitioner-Scholar Youmin Xi

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojun Zhang ◽  
Pingping Fu ◽  
Youmin Xi
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Integrate Management ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The University ◽  
Education In China ◽  
Management Theories

For nearly 30 years, Youmin Xi, professor of management at Xi’an Jiaotong University, who serves concurrently as the executive president of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and pro-vice chancellor of the University of Liverpool, has been trying to find a way to best integrate management practices and management research in the East and West based on his multiple roles as a management researcher, educator, and practitioner. Being the first recipient of the PhD degree of management engineering in China, Xi has personally witnessed and lived through the development of China’s management education. In this interview, Xi believes management theories and practice can support one another and collaborate to improve management education in China. He also believes what he has been doing in developing HeXie Management Theory, a practice-based management theory, could offer educators and practitioners in the West some food for thought.

scholarly journals Theory, explanation, and understanding in management research

2021 ◽  
pp. 234094442110124
Author(s):  
Jean-Etienne Joullié ◽  
Anthony M. Gould
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Application Management ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Critical Understanding ◽  
Freedom And Responsibility

Theory production has been a central focus of management research for decades, mostly because theory legitimizes both management research and, through its application, management practice as professional endeavors. However, such an emphasis on theory glosses over one of its constraining and particularized roles in scientific explanation, namely that theory codifies predictive knowledge. Committing to theory a ‘traditional’ or ‘critical’ understanding of theory, thus amounts to embracing the view that prediction is achievable within a circumscribed field of study. Such an embrace is non-controversial in natural science. However, within the realm of management studies, it necessitates and smuggles in a strawman view of human existence, one which does not accommodate freedom and responsibility. This limitation of management theory explains its inadequate utility. This article argues that alternative avenues for management research exist. JEL CLASSIFICATION: M10

International Relations Studies in China

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianwei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Intellectual Community ◽  
Ir Studies ◽  
Western Intellectual

This article traces the evolution of international relations studies as an academic discipline in China in the last two decades or so. Almost non-existent before the 1980s, IR studies has become an increasingly dynamic, sophisticated, and popular field of social science in both teaching and research. This is reflected in the growth of institutions, degree programs, scholarship and paradigmatic debate as well as interaction with the Western intellectual community in both theory and personnel. Nevertheless, the development of IR studies in China is still in its primitive stage and it must contend with various problems such as political control, a lack of well-trained scholars, inadequate funding, and ideational uncertainty.

Leading students through the management theory jungle by following the path of the seminal theorists

2004 ◽  
Vol 42 (10) ◽  
pp. 1309-1325 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Lemak
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Management Discipline

The “management theory jungle” described by Koontz appears to be overrun with even more theoretical undergrowth than when he wrote his seminal critiques of the state of this body of knowledge more than 40 years ago. This article endeavors to provide a clear and fairly narrow path through that jungle, using the seminal thinkers in management as our guides. It recommends adopting a paradigm‐based approach to the management discipline rather than struggling through the jungle of multiple theories and “schools of thought”. This approach satisfies the criteria set forth by Koontz to bring much needed clarification to the discipline of management. Specifically this approach: restricts the discipline to a manageable size; uses its simple and straightforward terminology; and gives direction to teaching and research. The article concludes with a discussion of some ideas on how to teach management using this paradigmatic approach.

Minding the Time: A Critical Look at Longitudinal Design and Data Analysis in Quantitative Public Management Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin M. Stritch
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Longitudinal Design ◽  
Public Employees ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
The Many

Public management scholars are looking to longitudinal research designs and data to help overcome the many limitations associated with cross-sectional research. However, far less attention has been given to time itself as a research lens for scholars to consider. This article seeks to integrate time as a construct of theoretical importance into a discussion of longitudinal design, data, and public management research. First, I discuss the relative advantages of longitudinal design and data, but also the challenges, limitations, and issues researchers need to consider. Second, I consider the importance of time as a theoretical construct of interest in the pursuit of longitudinal public management research. Third, I offer a brief look at the use of longitudinal design and panel data analyses in the current public management literature. The overview demonstrates a notable absence of public management research considering the attitudes, motives, perceptions, and experiences of individual public employees and managers. Finally, I consider why there are so few longitudinal studies of public employees and point out the issues public management researchers interested in individual employee-level phenomena need to consider when advancing their own longitudinal research designs.

Developments in Modern Operations Management and Cellular Manufacturing

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimír Modrák ◽  
Pavol Semanco
Keyword(s):  
Operations Management ◽  
Cellular Manufacturing ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Layout Design ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Knowledge Domain

Operations management as a knowledge domain appears to be gaining position as a respected and dynamic academic discipline that is undergoing constant development. Therefore, from time to time it is sensible to monitor and analyze its developments by summarizing new features into comprehensive ideas. To support this necessity, the major publications/citations in this field and their evolving research utility over the decades are identified in this chapter. Because the goal of this book is to present the advancements in the area of operations management research, especially of advanced topics related to the layout design for cellular manufacturing, the second part of this chapter is focused on developments in cellular manufacturing approaches and methods by mapping literature sources during the last decade. Finally, the relationships between concept or/and tools in both areas that are empirically considered as consequences or coincidences are identified.

Engineering to Management Transition

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-123
Author(s):  
Leonidas Efthymiou ◽  
Epaminondas Epaminonda ◽  
Despo Ktoridou
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
Managing Diversity ◽  
Case Based Learning ◽  
Case Based

This chapter identifies the main challenges in the transition from engineering to management and discusses how management education may assist in this transition. Mixed methods were used to achieve the above. Initially, two focus groups were conducted, and at a later stage, 126 engineers reported through a questionnaire the most common challenges in the transition from engineering to management and then a few were also interviewed. Results demonstrate that skills such as delegation, communication, convincing, coaching, and guiding others pose important challenges. In relation to the second inquiry, it is proposed that, other than management theory, offering examples, opportunity to practice with feedback, and case-based learning can help minimise the challenges. Also, leadership skills, such as delegation, developing personality, cross-cultural understanding, and managing diversity, can be strategically used to facilitate learning in the field of engineering and better prepare engineers in their transition to management.

Using Confidence Intervals to Quantify the Uncertainty in the End-Points of Stratigraphic Ranges

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 291-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles R. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Confidence Intervals ◽  
Mass Extinction ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
End Points ◽  
Western Tethys ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Biotic Events ◽  
Stratigraphic Ranges ◽  
The Many

One of the many contributions paleontology makes to our understanding of the biosphere and its evolution is a direct temporal record of biotic events. However, assuming fossils have been correctly identified and accurately dated, stratigraphic ranges underestimate true temporal ranges: observed first occurrences are too young, and observed last occurrences are too old. Here I introduce the techniques developed for placing confidence intervals on the end-points of stratigraphic ranges. I begin with the analysis of single taxa in local sections – with the simplest of assumptions – random fossilization. This is followed by a discussion of the methods developed to handle the fact that the recovery of fossils is often non-random in space and time. After discussion of how confidence intervals can be used to test for simultaneous origination and extinctions, I conclude with an example application of confidence intervals to unravel the relative importance of background extinction, environmental change and mass extinction of ammonite species at the end of the Cretaceous in western Tethys.

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