Management studies in crisis : fraud, deception and meaningless research / Dennis Tourish, University of Sussex.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tourish, Dennis, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management--Research--Evaluation.

Management.

Management--Study and teaching.

Research--Moral and ethical aspects.

Research.

Physical Description:

x, 304 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"More students study management and organization studies than ever, the number of business schools worldwide continues to rise, and more management research is being published in a greater number of journals than could have been imagined twenty years ago. Dennis Tourish looks beneath the surface of this progress to expose a field in crisis and in need of radical reform. He identifies the ways in which management research has lost its way, including a remoteness from the practical problems that managers and employees face, a failure to replicate key research findings, poor writing, endless obscure theorizing, and an increasing number of research papers being retracted for fraud and other forms of malpractice. Tourish suggests fundamental changes to remedy these issues, enabling management research to become more robust, more interesting and more valuable to society. A must read for academics, practising managers, university administrators and policy makers within higher education."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction: the crisis in management studies

Flawed from the get go: the early misadventures of management research

How audit damages research and academic freedom

'When the levee breaks': academic life on the brink

The corruption of academic integrity

Paradise lost but not regained: retractions and management studies

The triumph of nonsense in management studies

Flawed theorising, dodgy statistics and (in)authentic leadership theory

The promises, problems and paradoxes of evidence based management

Reclaiming meaningful research in management studies

Putting zest and purpose back into academic life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108480475

1108480470

9781108727488

1108727484

OCLC:

1080556046

Publisher Number:

90100599377