(by Christiane Prange; Dec 29, 2015) Recent studies of management fashions have contributed to our understanding of the forces underlying the rise and fall in popularity of new management techniques. As organization theorist Eric Abrahamson says, a management fashion…”is a relatively transitory collective belief, disseminated by management fashion setters, that a management technique leads rational management[…]

Business schools today, nationally and internationally, are no longer a source of efficient knowledge management and learning. Instead, they have largely turned into a credit points- producing industry, measuring performance by exam grades of mediocre importance. Consequently, experts have required universities to transform and to become an integrated part of the network-centric reality of the[…]

“If you want to keep in place”, the Red Queen says to Alice, “it takes all the running you can do. And if you want to get anywhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as this”. What Lewis Carroll tells us in his book Through the Looking-Glass seems to be of unquestionable[…]