Selen Kars Selen.Kars@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Organisation Studies
A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about management theory
Kars-Unluoglu, Selen
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Abstract
Sitting down to read a management theory textbook can be an uninspiring activity. They cover issues relevant to anybody who interacts with organisations (virtually everybody!). But the lengthy coverage of theories after theories makes the topic seem sterile. And because these theories have been regurgitated by so many people so many times, a reader not following the contemporary research published in journal articles (virtually everybody!) would form the impression that not much has been discovered in the last half a century or so. What one can expect from ‘a very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book’ in a field where even the heaviest textbook is not remotely interesting let alone inspiring? It turns out quite a lot – though perhaps not what one might expect.
Journal Article Type | Book Review |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 12, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 25, 2021 |
Publication Date | 2023-02 |
Deposit Date | Nov 13, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Dec 26, 2021 |
Journal | Management Learning |
Print ISSN | 1350-5076 |
Electronic ISSN | 1461-7307 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 54 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 121–124 |
Item Discussed | Bridgman Todd and Stephen, Bridgman & Cummings: A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management Theory, SAGE: London, 2020, 160 pp. ISBN: 9781526495136, £15.99. |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076211043089 |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/8070823 |
Publisher URL | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13505076211043089 |
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This is the author’s accepted manuscript of the article ‘Kars-Unluoglu, S. (2023). A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about management theory. Management Learning, 54(1), 121–124’. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076211043089
The final published version is available here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13505076211043089
2021 SAGE publications.
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