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Managers' awareness of fashionable management concepts: An empirical study

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  • Rossem, Annick Van
  • Veen, Kees Van

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Summary Literature on fashionable management concepts has a strong focus on the supply side. Attention to the demand side is usually restricted to implementation questions. However, between supply and implementation, there is an 'awareness phase', which has been neglected up till now. The level of awareness will vary between managers. As a result, one might expect that depending on certain contextual and individual characteristics, different subgroups of managers are aware of various concepts in different ways. As a result, the management population is not homogenous, but rather segmented. Hypotheses have been formulated to explain this segmentation based on contextual and individual characteristics. These hypotheses have been tested with 60 different management concepts on a Belgian sample of 681 respondents. The results showed the expected segmentation, but also raised interesting explanatory questions.

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  • Rossem, Annick Van & Veen, Kees Van, 2011. "Managers' awareness of fashionable management concepts: An empirical study," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 29(3), pages 206-216, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:eurman:v:29:y:2011:i:3:p:206-216
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    2. Özlem Yaþar Uðurlu & Nurettin Ýbrahimoðlu & Sibel Ayas, 2013. "A Content Analysis on Management Fashions in Turkish Manufacturing Companies," International Review of Management and Marketing, Econjournals, vol. 3(4), pages 164-183.
    3. Dag Øivind Madsen & Kåre Slåtten, 2015. "The Balanced Scorecard: Fashion or Virus?," Administrative Sciences, MDPI, vol. 5(2), pages 1-35, June.
    4. Dag Øivind Madsen, 2016. "Using Google Trends in Management Fashion Research: A Short Note," Working Papers hal-01343880, HAL.

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