Bad Management Theories Are Destroying Good Management Practices

By S. Ghoshal. 2005

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

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Employee Quality and Financial Reporting Outcomes (2017, neutral): “In addition, prior literature establishes that managers with an MBA develop different styles relating to conformity, conventionality, rationality, and ethics than do their counterparts without the same educational backgrounds (Chen 2004; Ghoshal 2005; Gintis and Khurana 2008).”
The relevance of knowledge management and intellectual capital Research (2008, background): “There are claims that business schools are failing in both goals (Bennis and O’Toole, 2005; Ghoshal, 2005).”
Happiness, Health, or Relationships? Managerial Practices and Employee Well-Being Tradeoffs (2007, background): “, 1996; Meglino & Korsgaard, 2004), and work organizations and academic institutions tend to shape managers in this direction (Ferraro et al., 2005; Ghoshal, 2005; Walsh et al., 2003).”
An Investigation of College Students’ Perceptions of Academic Dishonesty, Reasons for Dishonesty, Achievement Goals, and Willingness to Report Dishonest Behavior (2013, background): “Ghoshal (2005) claimed that “by propagating ideologically inspired amoral theories, business schools have actively freed their students from any sense of moral responsibility” (p. 76).”
Interplay between performance measurement and management, employee engagement and performance (2017, background): “Recently, performance measurement has been criticised with Johnson and Broms (2000) implying that a well-performing organisation does not need measures and Ghoshal (2005) criticising current management theories for emerging social and economic conditions.”
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”
Cultivating the spirit: how college can enhance student’s inner lives (2011, background): “This resonates with those who are dissatisfied with the same approach in terms of management education and who worry about the effect which an overtly economically driven management theory has on the mindsets and behaviours of management in practice (Thomas 2004; Ghoshal 2005).”
Toward a theory of business (2015, background): “Calling the theory’s prescriptions ‘‘wrong’’ and ‘‘dangerous,’’ Ghoshal and Moran (1996, p. 13) argued that managers who unwittingly implement these ideas could do more harm than good (see Ghoshal, 2005 for an elaboration of that accusation).”
Educating Managers From an Evidence-Based Perspective (2007, background): “Indeed as many have argued (Pfeffer & Fong, 2002; Mintzberg, 2004; Ghoshal, 2005) management education does not prepare future managers well—at least not in its present state.”
Institutional Logics in the Study of Organizations: The Social Construction of the Relationship between Corporate Social and Financial Performance (2011, background): “In other words, many organizational economists typically consider business executives to be mainly amoral in their decision making (see Donaldson, 1990; Ferraro et al., 2005; Ghoshal, 2005; Swanson, 1996; Williamson, 1985) because, based on these economic assumptions, managerial opportunism is expec”
Editorial: Enhancing quantitative theory-testing entrepreneurship research (2019, background): “…Venturing, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2019.02.001 replication crisis range from ample researcher degrees-of-freedom (Gelman and Loken, 2014; Goldfarb and King, 2016; Nuijten et al., 2016; Simmons et al., 2011), to the ‘publish-or-perish’ promotion and tenure system (Honig et al., 2017),1…”
Women and Employee-Elected Board Members, and Their Contributions to Board Control Tasks (2009, background): “They argue this assumption leads to negative and even disastrous consequences such as Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, etc (Ghoshal, 2005; Kochan, 2003).”
The Need for Design Thinking in Business Schools (2014, background): “Students thereby fail to appreciate the impact that business decisions have in people’s lives (Baker & Baker, 2012; Ghoshal, 2005; Starkey & Tempest, 2009).”
Ownership as a Form of Corporate Governance (2010, neutral): “While some scholars have questioned the extent to which manager and shareholder preferences diverge (Ghoshal, 2005), the vast amount of research relying on agency theory demonstrates that this assumption resonates with scholars (Dalton et al.”
e-Tourism beyond COVID-19: a call for transformative research (2020, background): “Although economic theory is not capable of explaining economic agents’ behavior empirically, its political function seems to influence and “program” human action through the prescription of what is considered economically “rational” (Brodbeck 2014; Ghoshal 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 ”