Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

12-2001

Abstract

In recentyears there has been growing interest and debate amongst scholars with respectto the notion that management ideas are subject to recurrent swings in fashionin the same way that aesthetic aspects of life, such as clothing styles andmusical tastes, are characterized by surges of popularity and then decline. A numberof reasons for the increasing importance of management fashion as an area ofresearch have been identified. First, each wave of fashionable thinking inmanagement is seen as altering accepted definitions of the character of themodern organizational ideal with the consequence that few people who work inorganizations remain untouched by the consequence of the implementation of a fashionableidea.

Discipline

Organizational Behavior and Theory

Research Areas

Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources

Publication

Human Relations

Volume

54

Issue

12

First Page

1650

Last Page

1662

ISSN

0018-7267

Identifier

10.1177/00187267015412005

Publisher

SAGE Publications (UK and US) / Springer Verlag (Germany)

Copyright Owner and License

Author

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267015412005

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