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   The Handbook of Management Fads: Survival in Business-- without Taking Yourself Too Seriously » Read Now

   by Steve Morris. 99 pgs.

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   Management Fashion: Lifecycles, Triggers, and Collective Learning Processes, in Administrative Science Quarterly » Read Now

   by Eric Abrahamson, Gregory Fairchild. 34 pgs.

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   Beyond the Fads: How Leaders Drive Change with Results, in Human Resource Planning » Read Now

   by Ronald N. Ashkenas. 20 pgs.

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   What Bandwagons Bring: Effects of Popular Management Techniques on Corporate Performance, Reputation, and CEO Pay, in Administrative Science Quarterly » Read Now

   by Barry M. Staw, Lisa D. Epstein. 37 pgs.

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   Fad Surfing in the Boardroom: Managing in the Age of Instant Answers » Read Now

   by Eileen C. Shapiro. 254 pgs.

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   Fad Surfing in the Boardroom has been hailed by critics whose only regret is that (Shapiro) didn't write ten years ago....Eileen Shapiro doesn't miss a trick....(The Fad Surfer's Dictionary) is hard to resist.
   
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   Management Fads: Here Yesterday, Gone Today?, in SAM Advanced Management Journal » Read Now

   by Charles W. Blackwell, Jane Whitney Gibson, Dana V. Tesone. 7 pgs.

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   Strategic Management and Core Competencies: Theory and Application ("Management Fads and Their Inherent Problems" begins on p. 28) » Read Now

   by Anders Drejer. 229 pgs.

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   Managers and management scholars alike need operational models and concepts for dealing with core competencies within strategic management. This book provides tools for the practitioner as well as fundamental theoretical concepts to enable scholars to further build upon Drejer's work. His main...

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   Managers and management scholars alike need operational models and concepts for dealing with core competencies within strategic management. This book provides tools for the practitioner as well as fundamental theoretical concepts to enable scholars to further build upon Drejer's work. His main argument is that understanding core competencies is key to explaining why some firms enjoy a competitive advantage over others. Drejer proposes models and means with which managers can proactively identify, design, and develop their firm's core competencies in strategic alignment.

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   The Life Cycle of Academic Management Fads, in Journal of Higher Education » Read Now

   by Robert Birnbaum. 16 pgs.

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   Schools of Thought in and against Total Quality, in Journal of Managerial Issues » Read Now

   by Helene Giroux, Sylvain Landry. 21 pgs.

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    Reengineering: The Missing Links, in Human Resource Planning » Read Now

    by Russell L. Leonard Jr. 8 pgs.

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    Six Sigma for Everyone » Read Now

    by George Eckes. 130 pgs.

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    ...A User-Friendly Guide to the Basics of Six Sigma From noted Six Sigma consultant and author George Eckes comes Six Sigma for Everyone, a practical guide that explains the...
    
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    The Congruence of People and Organizations: Healing Dysfunction from the inside Out ("Matrix Management" begins on p. 92) » Read Now

    by Jack R. Gibb, Lloyd C. Williams. 198 pgs.

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    ...This book focuses on a step-by-step approach to creating change within organizations from an inside-out developmental process. Traditional change processes for...
    
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    Just Say No to Training Fads, in T&D » Read Now

    by Shari Caudron. 6 pgs.

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    A Kind Word for Theory X: Or Why So Many Newfangled Management Techniques Quickly Fail, in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory » Read Now

    by Michael P. Bobic, William Eric Davis. 26 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library