The See-Saw of Management Fads: Remarks Towards a Dialectical Description.

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Nettle, Denis (2004) The See-Saw of Management Fads: Remarks Towards a Dialectical Description. Working Paper. Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.

Abstract

It is a common perception that the history of management discourse involves an oscillation between dualistic faddish perspectives. This paper, which derives its theoretical impetus from Marx and Wittgenstein, seeks to outline a philosophical, sociological and psychological diagnosis of this see-sawing process which avoids the dualism and logocentricism that dominates both fads and much of the criticism of faddism. Through abandoning dualities, we may develop more meaningful concepts of 'knowledge', 'organisation' and 'process'.

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Item type Monograph (Working Paper)
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/137
DOI 11
Subjects Historical > RFCD Classification > 350000 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
Historical > FOR Classification > 1503 Business and Management
Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > School of Management and Information Systems
Keywords management fads; management; concept of process; knowledge management; professional management
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