Management Fashion Adoption
Sensemaking and Identity Construction in Individual Managers’ Adoption Accounts
Samenvatting
On the basis of an extensive empirical exploration of individual managers' adoption accounts the author analyzes the driving forces behind the adoption of management fashions in organizations and shows how managers tie themselves and their careers to popular concepts such as Total Quality Management, Business Process Reengineering, Knowledge Management.
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
Towards a conceptual framework
Research methods
Participants and adoption accounts
Sensemaking and identity work
Fashion and identity construction in management practice