When Context Matters: How Management Research on Russia Contributes to Management Theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 15047
Author(s):  
Galina Shirokova ◽  
Tatiana S. Manolova ◽  
Tatiana Beliaeva ◽  
Anastasiia Laskovaia
Keyword(s):  
Management Theory ◽  
Management Research

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

Considering the roles of affect and culture in the enactment and enjoyment of cruelty

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spee Kosloff ◽  
Jeff Greenberg ◽  
Sheldon Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Cultural Worldview ◽  
Cultural Framework

Research on aggression and terror management theory suggests shortcomings in Nell's analysis of cruelty. Hostile aggression and exposure to aggressive cues are not inherently reinforcing, though they may be enjoyed if construed within a meaningful cultural framework. Terror management research suggests that human cruelty stems from the desire to defend one's cultural worldview and to participate in a heroic triumph over evil.

The Road More Popular versus the Road Less Travelled: An ‘Insider's’ Perspective of Advancing Chinese Management Research

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bor-Shiuan Cheng ◽  
An-Chih Wang ◽  
Min-Ping Huang
Keyword(s):  
Theory Development ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Chinese Management ◽  
Indigenous Management ◽  
The Road

To complement Barney and Zhang's as well as Whetten's articles in this issue of Management and Organization Review, we offer ways to develop indigenous management theory to explain unique Chinese management phenomena. We first briefly review the imbalance of developing theories of Chinese management versus developing Chinese theories of management in Chinese research societies. We then describe a five-step research process that uses an indigenous research approach to theory development: discovery of interesting phenomena, field observations, construction of the theoretical framework, empirical examination, and theory refinement. This process may be useful not only in the Chinese context, but also in any other context. We identify several challenges in both Chinese and international academic societies that must be overcome to facilitate learning across the two approaches proposed by Barney and Zhang: the need for high quality journals in the Chinese language, international journals' efforts to ease the imbalance between the two approaches, and collaboration between Chinese and Western management schools.

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.

Brand management – standing out from the crowd

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ceridwyn King
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Brand Management ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Integrative Research ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
New Research

Purpose This paper aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of how brand management research has evolved to inform future hospitality research agendas that are both theoretically and practically innovative and relevant. Design/methodology/approach A review of leading tourism and hospitality journals, augmented by a review of leading mainstream marketing and services journals, over the past 20 years was undertaken. Focusing on papers with an emphasis on the brand, as reflected in the title, over 263 articles were reviewed. Findings In contrast to the more established mainstream literature, brand management research in the hospitality literature is limited in both its depth and breadth. In seeking to go beyond mere replication, and in consideration of industry needs, the review informs the articulation of an integrative research framework that reflects the extant literature and illuminates new research pathways that, in anticipation of making a significant contribution to brand management theory, will enhance hospitality academic and practitioner understanding of brand management. Research limitations/implications The comprehensive critical review affords insight into areas of brand management research innovation, both from a topic and methods perspective. The proposed research agenda not only reflects industry priorities but also responds to gaps within academia’s current understanding of brand management theory, particularly within a service context. Grounded in classical theories and industry insight, the pursuit of topics advanced in the research agenda are expected to make a significant contribution to the theoretical understanding of the brand management concept in an applied setting, in addition to providing timely and relevant insight to practitioners seeking to stand out from the crowd. Originality/value With brands dominating the hospitality landscape, insight derived from thought leading and innovative research is needed. With no comprehensive review of brand management research within the tourism and hospitality literature, clarity with respect to what is known and, more importantly, what is not known is not apparent. This paper addresses this paucity and, in doing so, gives hospitality academics a clear pathway to conducting meaningful and relevant brand management research from both theoretical and practical perspectives.

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.

State-Owned Banks Risk Management Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 1044-1045 ◽  
pp. 1785-1788
Author(s):  
Zhen Guo
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
The State ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Western State ◽  
Stage Analysis

This paper mainly studies the concept of state-owned bank's risk and risk management, the state-owned Banks' risk types and western state-owned banks risk management theory. Through the observation of the state-owned Banks risk management status qua in our country at present stage analysis, find out the problems that exist in the state-owned Banks' risk management at the present stage in China and the insufficiency, in the understanding of problems gradually put forward the corresponding improvement to our country state-owned Banks' risk management methods and countermeasures.

The explicit dimension: what we could not learn from Polanyi

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 333-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Grandinetti
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Alternative States ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Management Theory

Purpose – This paper aims to clarify that the link between Michael Polanyi’s tacit knowledge theory and the field of knowledge management research does not withstand in-depth analysis. Second, the paper suggests a way to emerge from the ambiguity that unavoidably results from using the tacit knowledge concept in knowledge management studies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper begins with an analysis of the tacit knowledge theories developed by Polanyi, by cognitive psychologists and by knowledge management scholars. It goes on to formulate a new conceptual framework of tacit knowledge. Findings – This proposal consists in assuming that the terms “unconscious” and “tacit” are not interchangeable and, consequently, redefining the epistemological profile of knowledge management theory so as to acknowledge the existence of two planes of analysis. One is occupied by the process through which individuals gain knowledge, or the knowing process, which may be unconscious or conscious. The other contains the dichotomy between tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge, where the two terms indicate two alternative states that only consciously developed knowledge can adopt. Research limitations/implications – The paper provides support for the two-planes idea by referring to contributions from various disciplines, and particularly from cognitive psychology studies concerned with unconscious knowledge; a more thorough and extensive review would be needed, however, to fully demonstrate the proposal. Originality/value – Distinguishing between two planes of analysis makes it possible to unveil the mystery of tacit knowledge.

scholarly journals An Inquiry into the Management Theory: Introducing Cooperative Advantage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Kayak
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Thomas Kuhn ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Puzzle Solving ◽  
Cooperative Advantage

Although scientists and philosophers have debated epistemological questions since the time of Plato and Aristotle, the term Epistemology is not usually noticed in management research as mentioned in the literature by Johnson and Duberley in 2000. However, epistemology is still not usually noticed in management research. The most commonly known epistemological approaches are interpretative and positivism. The purpose of this study is to introduce a cooperative advantage model in management by addressing epistemology. The study focuses on how competitive advantage damage humankind. The study also figures out whether Management is Science or Not. The study findings show that management in fact is science and philosophy however scholars of the 20th and 21st century have made management just a discipline based on the puzzle-solving approach introduced by Thomas Kuhn in 1962. I sincerely hope the scientific community to pay attention to this research.

scholarly journals Megaproject Stakeholder Management

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham M. Winch
Keyword(s):  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
Society Perspective ◽  
Stakeholder Management Theory ◽  
Political Economic

Effective stakeholder management is crucial for megaproject development and delivery. This chapter provides an extensive review of the project stakeholder management literature, which is largely instrumental rather than descriptive or normative, and in particular fails to address the stakes of the natural environment and future generations in megaprojects. Drawing on developments in stakeholder management theory in strategic management research, the chapter proposes to broaden the agenda to a megaprojects and society perspective and to stress the political, economic, and ethical aspects in the context of an analysis which draws on institutional theory.

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