Why Do Bad Management Theories Persist? A Comment on Ghoshal

By Jeffrey Pfeffer. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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That’s Relevant! Different Forms of Practical Relevance in Management Science (2010, background): “They showed that business school students ‘have come to college to get a credential … How they get that credential is often less important than simply getting it’ (McCabe and Trevino 1996: 29, cited in Pfeffer 2005).”
Discovery and Creation: Alternative Theories of Entrepreneurial Action (2007, background): “Recently, some management disciplines have been criticized for having too many theories, and not enough theoretical and empirical integration (Hambrick, 2005; Pfeffer, 2005).”
Scandinavian Cooperative Advantage: The Theory and Practice of Stakeholder Engagement in Scandinavia (2015, background): “doing so, we contend that language matters where the language and metaphors of strategic management associated with achieving a competitive advantage are likely to hamper cooperation between companies and their stakeholders (Audebrand 2010; Ferraro et al. 2005; Ghoshal 2005; Pfeffer 2005; Rocha and ”
6 Pay and Performance: Individuals, Groups, and Executives (2009, background): “A series of articles bemoans the influence of economic ideas in management (Ferraro, Pfeffer, & Sutton, 2005; Ghoshal, 2005; Pfeffer, 2005).”
Toward a learning-based view of internationalization: The accelerated trajectories of cross-border learning for latecomers (2010, background): “Despite the distinctive focuses between the conventional and emerging models, they share a central theme: cross-border learning as both the motive and capability of internationalization (Li, 2007; cf. Casillas et al., 2008; Forsgren, 2002; Pitelis, 2007).”
Towards a taxonomy of research misconduct: The case of business school research (2019, background): “13 For discussion of the role of business schools and their teaching in corporate scandals and the 2007 financial crisis, see Swanson and Frederick (2003), Ghoshal (2005), Pfeffer (2005), and Giacalone and Wargo (2009).”
Economics Education and Greed (2011, background): “…have noted (e.g., Ferraro, et al, 2005), the language and assumptions of economics have become widely used and accepted, even though they may encourage and strengthen organizational practices that our profession and society actually denounce (Ghoshal, 2005; Pfeffer, 2005; Rocha & Ghoshal, 2006).”
Shareholder Primacy, Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Role of Business Schools (2014, unknown): “Similarly, Pfeffer (2005) commented that Ghoshal is right in asking what role business school academics have played in the rise of a particular form of theory that is bad for practice—and that it is even worse than Ghoshal maintains.”