This unit aims to prepare students to engage critically with theories and issues related to ‘organisations’ and ‘organising’. It aims specifically to develop students’ abilities to explore the ways in ...

The concept of sales "theory" or marketing "theory" is problematic. This is because these are really subsets of a broader microeconomic approach to the manipulation or creation of demand. The concept ...

The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 19, No. 3, Special Issue: "Total Quality" (Jul., 1994), pp. 392-418 (27 pages) We introduce this theory-development forum by comparing total quality and ...

In your 50 years as a writer and educator focused on management practices and development, how has the style, practice and perception of good management evolved? I believe that good managing is ...

Research Summary: This paper develops an inheritance theory explaining the diffusion and persistence of detrimental management practice. Received wisdom, in both management theory and practice, would ...

The difference between theory and practice is that practice takes theory into account. This simple statement about theory explains why we are continually surprised by the unintended consequences of ...

As HBR turns 100, we look back on our original mission, how we’ve changed, and what the future holds. by Laura Amico and Amy Bernstein In October 1922, the very first essay in volume 1, number 1 of ...

In part one of this series on how to optimally manage money and maintain a bankroll I stated that this is not a one size fits all endeavor. It varies from individual to individual depending on factors ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Business writers of a certain age — John Kay is one, I am another — have lived through two major waves in the ...