Management Fashion Adoption Sensemaking and Identity Construction in Individual Managers’ Adoption Accounts

Contemporary management is marked by fads and fashions. While the production and diffusion of popular management concepts have over the last years received considerable attention in academic and applied research, the adoption side of management fashions remains largely unexplored. Charles-Clemens Rü...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rüling, Charles-Clemens
Format: eBook
Language:German
Published: Wiesbaden Deutscher Universitätsverlag 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Setting the stage
  • 2. Theoretical foundations
  • 3. Towards a conceptual framework
  • 4. Research methods
  • 5. Participants and adoption accounts
  • 6. Accounts in context: Themes and issues
  • 7. Sensemaking and identity work
  • 8. Fashion and identity construction in management practice: Propositions and recommendations
  • References