Contents: Preface PART I BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION 1. Establishing the Art of Contextualizing Management Ideas and Panaceas as a Research Field Anders Örtenblad 2. The Anatomy of Managerial Panaceas: Ontology, Epistemology and Technology Paul Lillrank 3. Turning a Management Innovation into a Management Panacea: Management Ideas, Concepts, Fashions, Practices, and Theoretical Concepts Suleika Bort 4. Putting Panaceas into Practice … Or Not: Translating Discourse into Social Practice in Complex and Contested Terrains Pete Thomas PART II PANACEAS IN NEED OF CONTEXTUALIZATION 5. Panacea or Pandora’s Box? The Role of Fairness Perceptions and Interpersonal Competitiveness in Determining how Pay Secrecy Affects Individual Task Performance Elena Belogolovsky and Peter A. Bamberger 6. The Curious Case of Japanese Management: A Nation as a Panacea Paul Lillrank 7. The Importance of Context when Applying Social Cognitive Theory in Organizations John Mccormick, Seyyed Babak Alavi and José Hanham 8. The Search For Panaceas In Strategic Human Resource Management: A Wrong Turn For HRM Research? Paul Boselie and Chris Brewster PART III CONTEXTUALIZATION BY VARIOUS GROUPS OF ACTORS 9. The Art of Constructive Criticism Östen Ohlsson and Björn Rombach SECTION A CONTEXTUALIZATION BY RESEARCHERS 10. Changing the Story: Management Panaceas as Narrative Interventions Susan Rosina Whittle 11. Researcher Intervention in the Process of Contextualizing Fashionable Management Ideas: Some Previous Experiences Anders Örtenblad 12. A Stakeholder Approach to Advising on the Relevance of Management Ideas and Panaceas Anders Örtenblad, Shih-Wei Hsu and Peter Lamb SECTION B CONTEXTUALIZATION BY ORGANIZATIONAL ACTORS 13. Conveying the Adaptation of Management Panaceas: The Case of Management Gurus Timothy Clark, Pojanath Bhatanacharoen and David Greatbatch 14. Neutralizing Managerial Panaceas: How Universities Cope with Management Fads Peter Maassen and Bjørn Stensaker 15. The Creativity of Organizations in Taking Corporate Social Responsibility: Handling Conflicting Institutional Demands Stephan Bohn, Anne Galander and Peter Walgenbach 16. Excellence and Intelligence: Managing Practice Adaptation in Organizations and Fields Shaz Ansari, Patrick Reinmoeller and Juliane Reinecke 17. When a Managerial Panacea was Translated Rationally: The Case of Corporatization in the Swedish State-Owned Mail Enterprise Carina Abrahamson Löfström 18. Artistic Interventions in Organizations: Beyond the Fad Ariane Berthoin Antal 19. Good Reading Makes Good Action: Nothing so Practical as a Managerial Panacea? Carmelo Mazza and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen SECTION C CONTEXTUALIZATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION 20. Smuggling Panaceas by Management Gurus: A Critical Approach Michał Zawadzki 21. Empowering Students to Translate Management Panaceas Anders Örtenblad, Peter Lamb and Shih-Wei Hsu PART IV COMMENTS AND REFLECTIONS 22. Management Reforms as Fashion? Critical Remarks from a Philosophy of Science Perspective Hans Petter Saxi 23. Theory as Fashion: What are Management Ideas For? Martin Parker 24. Managerial Panaceas, Sensemaking and Identity Construction in Contemporary Organizations Charles-Clemens Rüling 25. Global Wisdom: Not a Panacea, But Absolutely Necessary for Transcending Managerial Failures Nancy J. Adler 26. Towards a Normative Theory of Contextualizing Management Ideas and Panaceas Anders Örtenblad Index

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