1st Edition

Fashions in Management Research An Empirical Analysis

By Patrick Thomas Copyright 1999
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Published in 1999, this text sets out to analyze fashions in management literature through studying patterns in the citations offered to leading management authors. Particular attention is paid to those publications which are cited extensively, but only for a short period - these publications are regarded as potentially subject to fashionable pressures. More detailed case studies of fashionable... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Theories of Fashion  3. Measuring the Influence of Research using Citations  4. The Aging of Research Literature  5. Constructing a Sample of Management Literature  6. A Preliminary Analysis of Management Fashions  7. The Empirical Identification of Management Fashions  8. Identifying Factors Associated with Management Fashions  9. Case Studies of Management Fashions  10. Towards a Theory of Management Fashion.

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Patrick Thomas