Great Minds in Management: The Process of Theory Development

INTRODUCTION 1. The Process of Developing Mangement Theory PART I: INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT 2. The Evolution of Social Cognitive Theory 3. Image Theory 4. The Road to Fairness and Beyond 5. Proactive Individualism 6. Upper Echelons Theory: Origins, Twists and Turns, and Lessons Learned 7. Goal Setting Theory: Theory Building by Induction 8. How Job Characteristics Theory Happened 9. Do Employee Attitudes Towards Organizations Matter? The Study of Employee Commitment to Organizations 10. Developing Psychological Contract Theory 11. The Escalation of Commitment: Steps Toward an Organizational Theory 12. On the Origins of Expectancy Theory PART II: BEHAVIOR OF ORGANIZATIONS 13. Double-Loop Learning in Organizations: A Theory of Action Perspective 14. Where Does Inequality Come From? The Personal and Intellectual Roots of Resource-Based Theory 15. Organizational Effectiveness: Its Demise and Re-Emergence Through Positive Organizational Scholarship 16. Managerial and Organizational Cognition: Islands of Coherence 17. Develping Theory About the Development of Theory 18. Managing Organizational Knowledge: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations 19. The Experience of Theorizing: Sensemaking as Topic and Resource PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTINGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS 20. The Development of Stakeholder Theory: An Idiosyncratic Approach 21. Developing Resouce Dependence Theory: How Theory is Affected by its Environment 22. Institutional Theroy: Contributing to a Theoretical Research Program 23. Transaction Cost Economics: The Process of Theory Development 24. Developing Evolutionary Theory for Economics and Management 25. An Evolutionary Approach to Institutions and Social Construction: Process and Structure CONCLUSION 26. Learning How to Develop Theory from the Masters

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