What is it about?
Is there a better way to organize management knowledge? Right now, it's not feasible to really know what we know, or what we do not know; what we've "proven" right or invalidated. So I put forth two ways to better organize management knowledge that might allow us to increase our knowledge of management in a systematic way, with significantly fewer resources.
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Why is it important?
Management is an important topic; all the more so nowadays when many social, ecological, and economic issues are being mismanaged. Tens of thousands of highly skilled and often expensive folks are spending their days and millions if not billions of dollars investigating management. We do not seem to produce enough insights from all of this. If we had a better way of organizing management scholarship, it seems reasonable that we would have better odds of finding ways to better manage.
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It's implausible to read let alone fully absorb all the management articles that are published nowadays, even in one's specialized areas. We need to organize in a way that allows us to know what we know, and for sake of reviewers, editors, and authors, we also need to know what has been rejected (else, we can cherry pick from failed ideas to support new papers). If a practitioner asks, what do I do about X, the answer seems to be: Well, there are 27 articles that say do this, another 33 that say do that . . . Can we find a better way to organize? I have a few ideas that I present in this paper. Google, if you're listening, TOMCat would be a great addition to Google Scholar.
Prof Michael L Barnett
Rutgers University Newark
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This page is a summary of: Strategist, organize thyself, Strategic Organization, September 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1476127015604842.
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