Authors
M Ronald Buckley, John E Baur, Jay H Hardy, III, James F Johnson, Genevieve Johnson, Alexandra E MacDougall, Christopher G Banford, Zhanna Bagdasarov, David R Peterson, Juandre Peacock
Publication date
2015/1/12
Journal
Journal of Management History
Volume
21
Issue
1
Pages
68-97
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Description
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper was to identify examples of management lore currently in the organizational sciences.
Design/methodology/approach
– The authors deliberated and developed a series of examples of management lore in the organizational sciences and surveyed management practitioners concerning their beliefs in the lore hypothesized.
Findings
– Pervasive beliefs that conflict with academic research exist in management practices. Although many of these ideas are commonly accepted as immutable facts, they may be based upon faulty logic, insufficient understanding of academic research, anecdotal evidence and an overdependence upon common sense. Buckley and Eder (1988) called these as examples of management lore. In this conceptual paper, we identify and discuss 12 examples of management lore that …
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