The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas

Andrew Sturdy, Professor of Management and Organization, University of Bristol,Stefan Heusinkveld, Associate Professor of Management and Organization, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,Trish Reay, Professor of Strategic Management and Organization, University of Alberta,David Strang, Professor of Sociology, Cornell University

Andrew Sturdy is Professor of Management and Organisation at the University of Bristol, UK. Previously, he held posts at Imperial College London and the Universities of Bath, Melbourne and Warwick. His research lies mostly in the field of organisational innovation and the role of management consultancy. His work includes co-authored books such as Beyond Organisational Change (Macmillan), Management Consultancy (Oxford University Press) and Management as Consultancy (Cambridge University Press). He is an associate editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry and a Visiting Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). His latest work explores consultancy in national and transnational public sector contexts, including the UK National Health Service.


Stefan Heusinkveld is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management and Organization, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). His research concentrates on the production and consumption of management ideas with a special interest in studying the role of professions and occupations, management gurus, and the business media. He has published on these topics in several journals such as British Journal of Management and Journal of Management Studies. His work also includes books such as The Management Idea Factory (Routledge), and The Flow of Management Ideas (Cambridge University Press). He is lead coordinator of the EGOS Standing Working Group on 'Management, Occupations and Professions in Social Context'.


Trish Reay is Professor in Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Alberta School of Business in Edmonton, Canada. She also holds a Visiting Distinguished Professor appointment at Warwick Business School. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief at Organization Studies. Her research interests include qualitative research methods, organizational and institutional change, professions, and professional identity. She studies these topics in the context of health care and family firms. Published articles from these research streams appear in Academy of Management Journal, Organization Studies, and Journal of Management Studies.


David Strang is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. His research has focused on the spread of practices in the business, political, and scientific worlds. He has developed statistical methods for the study of diffusion within an event history framework and agent-based models for the simulation of booms and busts in managerial fashion. Strang is author of Learning by Example: Imitation and Innovation at a Global Bank (Princeton, 2010) and has published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, American Journal of Sociology and Organization Studies. He has held visiting appointments at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, INSEAD, Oxford, the University of Amsterdam, and Tel Aviv University, and received a Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford.

Researching Management Ideas: An Introduction, Andrew Sturdy, Stefan Heusinkveld, Trish Reay, and David Strang
Understanding Management Ideas
1. The System of Management Ideas: Origins, Microfoundations, and Dynamics, Michael J. Mol, Nicolai Foss, and Julian Birkinshaw
2. The Lifecycle of Management Ideas: Innovation, Diffusion, Institutionalization, Dormancy, and Rebirth, Eric Abrahamson and Alessandro Piazza
3. The Philosophy Of Management Ideas, Joe O'Mahoney
4. Methods for the Study of Management Ideas, David Strang and Christian Wittrock
5. Management Techniques, Andreas Werr and Peter Walgenbach
6. Instrumental Understanding Of Management Ideas, Kjell Arne Rovik
Actors
7. Thought Leaders and Followers: The Impact of Consultants and Advisers on Management Ideas, Christopher Wright
8. Business Studies and Management Ideas, Lars Engwall and Linda Wedlin
9. Multinational and Transnational Organisations: The Role Of Globalizing Actors, Philipp Kern, Phil Almond, Tony Edwards, and Olga Tregaskis
10. Business Media: From Gatekeeping to Transmediality, Marcos Barros and Charles-Clemens Ruling
11. Management's Gurus, David Collins
12. The Consumers and Co-Producers of Management Ideas, Suleika Bort and Alfred Kieser
Processes
13. The Re-adoption Of Management Ideas: How They Come, How They Go, And Why Some Come Back, Patrick Reinmoeller, Shaz Ansari, and Mohit Mehta
14. The Persistence of Management Ideas: How Framing Keeps 'Lean' Moving, Jos Benders, Marlieke van Grinsven, and Jonas A. Ingvaldsen
15. Evolving Management Ideas, Hannele Seeck and Juha-Antti Lamberg
16. Popular Management Ideas, Helene Giroux
17. Professional Structures and Practice Change: Institutionalization Processes in Accounting and Strategy, Richard Whittington and Deborah Anderson
18. Management Ideas as Standards, Andreas Rasche and David Seidl
19. Understanding and Analysing Resistance to Management Ideas, Darren McCabe, Sylwia Ciuk, and Stephanie Russell
20. The Performance Implications of Management Ideas, Christopher Wickert, Jost Sieweke, and Riku Ruotsalainen
Contexts
21. The (Geo)-Politics of Management Ideas - Three Moments in the Trajectory of an Instrument of Power, Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic
22. Management Ideas and the Social Construction of Organizations, Shawn Pope and Patricia Bromley
23. The Role of Family Firms in Corporate Sustainability, Pramodita Sharma and Sanjay Sharma
24. Managing Public Service Professionals under New Public Management, Michael Reed
25. Management Ideas in Everyday Life, Philip Hancock and Melissa Tyler
26. Changing the Critique: From Critical Management Studies to Activist Scholarship, Craig Prichard and Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar
27. Alternatives to Management Ideas, Martin Parker
28. New Directions For Research On Management Ideas, Andrew Sturdy, Stefan Heusinkveld, Trish Reay, and David Strang