Smith and Hitt - Great Minds in Management: The Process of Theory Development

In Great Minds in Management, Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt have brought together some of the most influential and original thinkers in management. Their contributions to this volume not only outline their landmark contributions to management theory, but also reflect on the process of theory development, presenting their own personal accounts of the gestation of these theories. The result is not only an ambitious and original panorama of the key ideas in management theory presented by their originators, but also a unique collection of reflections on the process of theory development, an area which to date little has been written about by those who have actually had experience of building theory. In their concluding chapter, Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt draw together some common themes about the development of management theory over the last half a century, and suggest some of the conclusions to be drawn about how theory comes into being. Contributors: Chris Argyris, Albert Bandura, Jay B. Barney, Lee R. Beach, Kim Cameron, Michael R. Darby, Robert Folger, R. Edward Freeman, Michael Frese, J. Richard Hackman, Donald C. Hambrick, Michael A. Hitt, Anne S. Huff, Gary P. Latham, Edwin A. Locke, Henry Mintzberg, Terrence R. Mitchell, Richard T. Mowday, Ikujiro Nonaka, Greg R. Oldham, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Lyman W. Porter, Denise M. Rousseau, W. Richard Scott, Ken G. Smith, Barry M. Staw, Richard M. Steers, Victor H. Vroom, Karl E. Weick, Oliver E. Williamson, Sidney G. Winter, and Lynn Zucker

Contents

PART I INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR
ENVIRONMENT
2. The Evolution of Social Cognitive Theory 9
Albert Bandura
3. Image Theory 36
Lee R. Beach and Terence R. Mitchell
4. The Road to Fairness and Beyond 55
Robert Folger
5. Grand Theories and Mid-Range Theories: Cultural Effects
on Theorizing and the Attempt to Understand Active
Approaches toWork 84
Michael Frese
6. Upper Echelons Theory: Origins, Twists and Turns, and
Lessons Learned 109
Donald C. Hambrick
7. Goal Setting Theory: Theory Building by Induction 128
8. How Job Characteristics Theory Happened 151
Greg R. Oldham and J. Richard Hackman
9. Do Employee Attitudes towards Organizations Matter?
The Study of Employee Commitment to Organizations 171
Lyman W. Porter, Richard M. Steers and Richard T. Mowday
10. Developing Psychological Contract Theory 190
Denise M. Rousseau
11. The Escalation of Commitment: Steps toward an
Organizational Theory 215
Barry M. Staw
12. On the Origins of Expectancy Theory 239
Victor H. Vroom
PART I I BEHAVIOR OF ORGANIZATIONS
13. Double-Loop Learning in Organizations: ATheory of Action
Perspective 261
Chris Argyris
14. Where does Inequality Come from? The Personal and
Intellectual Roots of Resource-Based Theory 280
Jay B. Barney
15. Organizational Effectiveness: Its Demise and Re-emergence
through Positive Organizational Scholarship 304
Kim Cameron
16. Managerial and Organizational Cognition: Islands of
Coherence 331
Anne S. Huff
17. Developing Theory about the Development of Theory 355
Henry Mintzberg
18. Managing Organizational Knowledge: Theoretical and
Methodological Foundations 373
Ikujiro Nonaka
19. The Experience of Theorizing: Sensemaking as Topic
and Resource 394
Karl E. Weick
PART I I I ENVIRONMENTAL CONTINGENCIES
AND ORGANIZATIONS
20. The Development of Stakeholder Theory: An Idiosyncratic
Approach 417
R. Edward Freeman
21. Developing Resource Dependence Theory: How Theory is
Affected by its Environment 436
Jeffrey Pfeffer
22. Institutional Theory: Contributing to a Theoretical Research
Program 460
W. Richard Scott
23. Transaction Cost Economics: The Process of Theory
Development 485
Oliver E. Williamson
24. Developing Evolutionary Theory for Economics and
Management 509
Sidney G. Winter
25. An Evolutionary Approach to Institutions and
Social Construction: Process and Structure 547
Lynn G. Zucker and Michael R. Darby
26. Epilogue: Learning to Develop Theory from the Masters 572
Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt
Index 589

Ken G. Smith(Editor) Michael A. Hitt(Editor)
Great Minds in Management: The Process of Theory Development

Publisher:   Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages:   616
Publication Date:   2005-10-20
ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0199276811
ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780199276813

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