Table of Contents

1: Adrian Wilkinson, Steve J. Armstrong, and Michael Lounsbury: Introduction
Part I: Main Historic Models
2: Lucy Taska: Scientific Management
3: Kyle Bruce and Chris Nyland: Human Relations
4: Martin Spring: Operations Management
5: Peter Starbuck: Peter F. Drucker's Management by Objectives and Self-Control
6: Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman, and Sierk Ybema: Studying Culture in Organizations: Not Taking for Granted the Taken-for-Granted
7: C. R. (Bob) Hinings and Roston Greenwood: The Opening Up of Organization Theory: Open Systems, Contingency Theory, and Organizational Design
8: Stewart Clegg , Marco Berti, and Walter P. Jarvis: Future in the Past: A Philosophical Reflection on the Prospects of Management
Part II: The Doing/Functions of Managements
9: Andy Charwood and Kim Hoque: Managing People: Understanding the Theory and Practice of Human Resources Management
10: Nicola Bateman and Zoe Radnor: Managing Operations
11: Jeffrey K. Pinto and Peerasit Patanakul: Managing Projects
12: Wendy L. Currie: Managing Data, Information, and Knowledge
13: Violina P. Rindova and Santosh Srinivas: Managing Meaning - Culture
14: Ronald E. Riggio: Management and Leadership
15: Mark Shanley: Fragmentation in Strategic Management: Process and Agency Issues
16: Stefan Tengblad: Management Practice - and the Doing of Management
17: David A. Buchanan: Managing Change
Part III: Themes
18: David Courpasson: Management as a Practice of Power
19: Michel Anteby and Caitlin Anderson: Management and Morality/Ethics - The Elusive Corporate Morals
20: Graham Sewell: Management and Modernity
Part IV: Management in Society and Management Organizations/Institutions
21: Kevin Morell and Mark Learmouth: Evidence-Based Management
22: Kenneth G. Brown and Robert S. Rubin: Management Education and Business Schools
23: Damian O'Doherty and Christian De Cock: Management as an Academic Discipline?
24: Luciara Nardon: Culture, Context, and Managerial Behaviour
25: Mike Geppert and Graham Hollinshead: International Management
26: Andy Sturdy, Christopher Wright, and Nick Wylie: Management and Consultancy: Ambivalence, Complexity, and Change

About the Author

Steven J Armstrong is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Hull University Business School in the UK and Visiting Research Fellow at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. Steve has edited three books, co-edited eight books of conference proceedings, and authored more than forty articles/book chapters. He is currently Associate Editor of Academy of Management Learning & Education and an editorial board member of International Journal
of Management Reviews and Journal of Management Education. He is also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Management and remains a Chartered Engineer, and a Member of the Institution of Engineering and
Technology. Michael Lounsbury is Professor, Thornton A. Graham Chair, and Associate Dean of Research at the University of Alberta School of Business, and a Principle Investigator at the Canadian National Institute of Nanotechnology. His research focuses on the relationship between organizational and institutional change, entrepreneurial dynamics, and the emergence of new industries and practices. In addition to serving on a number of editorial boards, Professor Lounsbury is the series editor of
Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Co-Editor of Organization Studies, and Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Annals. He is also the Chair Elect of the Organization and Management
Theory Division of the Academy of Management. Adrian Wilkinson is Professor and Director of the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, at Griffith University, Australia. He holds Visiting Professorships at Loughborough University, Sheffield University, and the University of Durham, and is an Academic Fellow at the Centre for International Human Resource Management at the Judge Institute, University of Cambridge. Adrian is an author, co-author, or editor of twenty-five books, over 150
articles in refereed journals, and numerous book chapters. Adrian was appointed as a British Academy of Management Fellow in 2010. He is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the
Australian Academy of Social Sciences. He has been shortlisted by HR magazine for the award of HR (Human Resources) Most Influential International Thinker.