Management Theory And Practices: Criticism And Debate

摘要

Management Decision is inviting contributions of 3,000-6,000 words by July 1, 2010 for consideration in a special issue on "Management theory and practices: criticism and debate". The topic of this special issue is the analysis of management theory and practices. Each management theory is a lens that allows us to interpret one or other mode of management, to identify a particular set of problems and to seek a variety of solutions to those problems. Hence, the importance of a critical review of those theories and the analysis of the resulting practices from each of them. Management practices in different economic sectors and in varying types of businesses depend on the theories that are applied either explicitly or implicitly. Schools of thought, either from sociology or from economy, that make up the field of management, particularly the theories or approaches that gained acceptance during the second half of the twentieth century and the first few years of the twenty-first, have undergone both the consolidation and the application of their most relevant contributions and the criticism of some of the aspects of their implications or even their fundamental proposals.