WHEN FASHION IS FLEETING: TRANSITORY COLLECTIVE BELIEFS AND THE DYNAMICS OF TQM CONSULTING

By Robert J. David, D. Strang. 2006

202 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• The Too-Much-of-a-Good-Thing Effect in Management (2013, background): “…logics, fashions, or fads among researchers and practitioners (Abrahamson & Fairchild, 1999), and their perceived legitimacy may perpetuate rather than mitigate against false understanding and misguided decisions (Christensen-Szalanski & Beach, 1984; David & Strang, 2006; Staw & Epstein, 2000).”
• TQM and performance: Is the relationship so obvious? (2011, background): “Though many researchers consider total quality management (TQM) to be an important organizational innovation, often authors include TQM among management fads (David and Strang, 2006; Miller et al., 2004; Rich, 2008).”
• How are Practices Made to Vary? Managing Practice Adaptation in a Multinational Corporation (2014, unknown): “Examples include TQM (David & Strang, 2006; Kennedy & Fiss, 2009), Six Sigma (Canato, Ravasi & Phillips, 2013; Parast, 2011), manufacturing best practice programmes (Love & Cebon, 2008), telemedicine (Nicolini, 2010), strategic planning (Bromley et al., 2012), self-managing teams (Vaccaro, Volberda…”
• A Longitudinal Study of Herd Behavior in the Adoption and Continued Use of Technology (2013, background): “David and Strang 2006 Management fashion Management fashion: attention rapidly coalesces around a management practice as a powerful and robust means of achieving competitive success (p. 215).”