Work of Managers Towards a Practice Theory of Management
Towards a Practice Theory of Management
1st Edition
Published on 16. February 2012
384 pages
978-0-19-162810-8 (ISBN)
Description
The book provides an overview of research, theory, and methodology on the realities of managerial work and presents a number of empirical studies on various kinds of managers within different sectors and at different levels of organizations. It uses the behaviour and activities of successful managers as primary data for a theory of good management.
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Content
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Notes on the Contributors
- Part I: Framework
- 1. Overcoming the rationalistic fallacy in management research
- 2. Management in practice: Overview of classic studies on managerial work
- Part II: A practice perspective on leadership and managerial work
- 3. Managerial leadership as event-driven improvisation
- 4. Managerial leadership: Identities, processes, and interactions
- 5. Multi-framing as a tool in top management teams
- Part III: Operational managerial work
- 6. Work activities and stress among managers in health care
- 7. Leadership as muddling through: Site managers in the construction industry
- 8. R&D managers leading knowledge workers with care
- Part IV: Administrative managerial work
- 9. Managers at the municipal top
- 10. The Swedish Municipality Director: A managerial function between politics and administration
- 11. Leaders of modern universities: Primi inter pares or chief executive officers?
- 12. Managerial work at the top: Tracing changes in work practices and efforts towards theory development
- Part V: Managerial work in small businesses
- 13. Managerial behaviour in small firms: Does it matter what managers do?
- 14. The duality of strategic managerial work in SMEs: A structuration perspective
- 15. Managerial practices in family-owned firms: Strategizing actors, their arenas, and their emotions
- Part VI: The way forward
- 16. Refining shadowing methods for studying managerial work
- 17. Bridging the management theory and practice gap
- 18. Conclusions and the way forward: Towards a practice theory of management
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
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