Damned by Our Own Theories: Contradictions Between Theories and Management Education

By L. Donaldson. 2002

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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In Management Information Systems

1. C. Trank
2. M. Emiliani
3. D. Schwandt
4. S. Rynes
5. Gianpiero Petriglieri
6. S. Ghoshal
7. J. Petriglieri

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. J. Petriglieri
2. S. Rynes
3. Gianpiero Petriglieri
4. C. Trank
5. M. Emiliani
6. D. Schwandt
7. S. Ghoshal
8. John H. Dunning

Citations in the corpus

• Who moved our cheese? Reclaiming professionalism in business education (2003, background): “Alternatively, Donaldson (2002) argued that we are being "damned by our own theories" because, in his view, "some of the theo-”
• Improving business school courses by applying lean principles and practices (2004, background): “The improvement opportunities identified by AACSB International, as well as other recent calls to improve graduate business school education (Karapetrovic et al., 1999; Donaldson, 2002; Etzioni, 2002; Mintzberg et al., 2002; Pfeffer and Fong, 2002; Aspen Institute, 2003; Ghoshal, 2003), are consis”
• Identity Workspaces: The Case of Business Schools (2010, background): “Over the last decade, management scholars have engaged in significant debate about the purpose of business schools, with some expressing substantial concerns about the values held by these schools (Gioia, 2002); their theories (Starkey & Tempest, 2005); and their pedagogical methods (Donaldson, 2002”
• Bad Management Theories Are Destroying Good Management Practices (2005, background): “Several scholars have recently voiced their concerns about the current state of management research and pedagogy (e.g., Porter & McKibbin, 1988; Leavitt, 1989; Hambrick, 1994; Mintzberg & Gosling, 2002; Donaldson, 2002; Pfeffer & Fong, 2002).”
• When Managers Become Philosophers: Integrating Learning With Sensemaking (2005, background): “My purpose here is to join the scholarly conversation (Huff, 1999) concerning the development of managers (Detrick, 2002; Donaldson, 2002; Pfeffer & Fong, 2002) and to introduce the reader to two similar constructs developed in differing paradigms: sensemaking and learning.”