Ken G. Smith / Michael A. Hitt (eds.)

Great Minds in Management

The Process of Theory Development
Herausgeber: Smith, Ken G.; Hitt, Michael A.

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Produktbeschreibung

In Great Minds In Management, Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt bring together some of the most influential and original thinkers in the field. The contributions to this volume not only outline their landmark contributions to management theory, but also reflect on the process of theory development. Contributors include: Chris Argyris, Albert Bandura, Jay B. Barney, Lee R. Beach, Kim Cameron, Michael R. Darby, Robert Folger, R. Edward Freeman, Michael Frese, J. Richard Hackman, Donald C. Hambrick, Michael A. Hitt, Anne S. Huff, Gary P. Latham, Edwin A. Locke, Henry Mintzberg, Terrence R. Mitchell, Richard T. Mowday, Ikujiro Nonaka, Greg R. Oldham, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Lyman W. Porter, Denise M. Rousseau, W. Richard Scott, Ken G. Smith, Barry M. Staw, Richard M. Steers, Victor H. Vroom, Karl E. Weick, Oliver E. Williamson, Sidney G. Winter, and Lynn Zucker.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 616
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 194mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1060g
• ISBN-13: 9780199276820
• ISBN-10: 019927682X
• Artikelnr.: 23142557

Autorenporträt

Ken G. Smith is the Dean's Chaired Professor of Business Strategy at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park. Professor Smith is a former editor of the Academy of Management Review, and has co-authored and edited books on strategy and organizational cooperation. He is currently the President of the Academy of Management. Michael A. Hitt is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Joseph Foster Chair in Business Leadership and the C.W. and Dorothy Conn Chair in New Ventures at Texas A&M University.Professor Hitt has written and edited numerous books and articles, including recently Mergers and Acquisitions: A Guide to Creating Value for Stakeholders (OUP, 2001). Professor Hitt has received awards for his writing and research, including the Distinguished Service Award from the Academy of Management in 2001.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Michael A. Hitt and Ken G. Smith: The Process of Developing
Mangement Theory
* Part I: Individuals and Their Environment
* 2: Albert Bandura: The Evolution of Social Cognitive Theory
* 3: Lee R. Beach and Terrence R. Mitchell: Image Theory
* 4: Robert Folger: The Road to Fairness and Beyond
* 5: Michael Frese: Proactive Individualism
* 6: Donald C. Hambrick: Upper Echelons Theory: Origins, Twists and
Turns, and Lessons Learned
* 7: Edwin A. Locked and Gary P. Latham: Goal Setting Theory: Theory
Building by Induction
* 8: Greg R. Oldham and J. Richard Hackman: How Job Characteristics
Theory Happened
* 9: Lyman W. Porter, Richard M. Steers, and Richard T. Mowday: Do
Employee Attitudes Towards Organizations Matter? The Study of
Employee Commitment to Organizations
* 10: Denise M. Rousseau: Developing Psychological Contract Theory
* 11: Barry M. Staw: The Escalation of Commitment: Steps Toward an
Organizational Theory
* 12: Victor H. Vroom: On the Origins of Expectancy Theory
* Part II: Behavior of Organizations
* 13: Chris Argyris: Double-Loop Learning in Organizations: A Theory of
Action Perspective
* 14: Jay B. Barney: Where Does Inequality Come From? The Personal and
Intellectual Roots of Resource-Based Theory
* 15: Kim Cameron: Organizational Effectiveness: Its Demise and
Re-Emergence Through Positive Organizational Scholarship
* 16: Anne S. Huff: Managerial and Organizational Cognition: Islands of
Coherence
* 17: Henry Mintzberg: Develping Theory About the Development of Theory
* 18: Ikujiro Nonaka: Managing Organizational Knowledge: Theoretical
and Methodological Foundations
* 19: Karl E. Weick: The Experience of Theorizing: Sensemaking as Topic
and Resource
* Part III: Environmental Contingencies and Organizations
* 20: R. Edward Freeman: The Development of Stakeholder Theory: An
Idiosyncratic Approach
* 21: Jeffrey Pfeffer: Developing Resouce Dependence Theory: How Theory
is Affected by its Environment
* 22: W. Richard Scott: Institutional Theroy: Contributing to a
Theoretical Research Program
* 23: Oliver E. Williamson: Transaction Cost Economics: The Process of
Theory Development
* 24: Sidney G. Winter: Developing Evolutionary Theory for Economics
and Management
* 25: Lynn Zucker and Michael R. Darby: An Evolutionary Approach to
Institutions and Social Construction: Process and Structure
* Conclusion
* 26: Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt: Learning How to Develop Theory
from the Masters