Cognitive Style and its Relevance for Management Practice

This review paper addresses some of the semantic issues associated with the nature of cognitive style, identifies some of the most often cited dimensions of cognitive style, examines ways in which these styles can be classified and considers the implications of cognitive style for management practice.     

管理理论的实践相关性问题研究综述

介绍了管理理论缺乏实践相关性问题产生的历史背景以及其主要证据,并从管理理论传播过程、管理理论生产过程、管理研究方法论和管理理论框架、管理学者的价值观和管理学院追求的目标4个方面,对问题的原因进行了综述和分析,最后提出了需要进一步研究的几个问题。     

中国管理实践研究的路径

研究中国管理实践具有重大的理论意义和实践意义,重点关注中国管理实践研究的路径:首先,在探讨中国管理实践研究路径时必须遵循2个原则:借鉴国际规范的研究方法和结合中国特殊的情境变量。在此基础上,对中国管理实践研究的路径进行了界定:从企业面临的实际问题出发提出研究问题;通过文献梳理的方式提出理论视角,并结合特殊的中国情境变量进行研究;采用案例研究的方法。最后,提出中国管理实践研究的3个阶段:零星研究阶段、系统研究阶段以及整合研究阶段。     

中国管理实践研究的研究主体与评价主体——基于金蝶的管理研究实践

随着中国管理实践研究的深入发展,其研究主体多元化的格局正逐渐清晰起来。除了高校和研究机构中的管理学者是重要的研究主体之外,诸如管理咨询机构、企业研究院等也日益成为不可忽视的研究力量。研究主体与评价主体之间存在多种不同的对应关系,这其中蕴藏着关于客户的深层次问题。金蝶的管理研究实践,不仅对这一问题予以回应,也引发了对由实践客户驱动的评价路径与策略的探索。管理学者可以寻求社会中的多股力量,来共同推动中国管理实践研究的发展及其评价系统的优化。     

管理研究与实践脱节的原因以及应对策略

管理研究与管理实践脱节最近引起研究者的强烈关注。它是指管理研究所得出的发现,或发展出来的理论并没有在具体实践之中得到有效应用。论文将其归纳为无关型、超脱型、应用型、传递型、落后型五种类型的脱节,并对脱节的原因进行了深入分析。我们认为,建立合理的管理研究成果评价机制、进行以问题和变革驱动的情境化研究、综合运用多种研究范式、成立跨学科的研究机构、建立有效的科学研究共同体、建立学术知识转化机制、强化研究的规范性,将是弥合管理研究与实践距离的有效对策。     

Gapping the Relevance Bridge: Fashions Meet Fundamentals in Management Research

The much lamented 'relevance gap' is as much a product of practitioners wedded to gurus and fads as it is of academics wedded to abstractions and fundamentals. The gap persists because practitioners forget that 'the' real world is actually 'a' world that is idiosyncratic, egocentric and unique to each person complaining about relevance. Greater attention to the conceptual underpinnings of fads and egocentric perception suggest the existence of more fundamental barriers to effectiveness such as ceilings on improvement, weak situations, ambiguous signals, non-obvious adaptive forms and preoccupation with vision. Joint practitioner-academic effort devoted to questions of how events come to be seen as 'real' could re-bridge a gap whose nature has been misidentified.     

Approaches to Equity Management and their Relationship to Women in Management

Developing equitable practices that provide fair access for all individuals to the benefits and burdens within an organization remains a dilemma for management both in policy and in practice. Research continues to show that the employment status and representation for members of some groups is significantly less than in relation to those of other groups. Addressing the issue of disparity has resulted in a number of different approaches. The main aim of this paper is to explore the ability of a typological theory of equal employment opportunity implementation to account for the differences in the numbers of women in management and in management tiers. This paper identifies and analyses four ideal-typical equity management approaches to achieving workplace parity: traditional (non-compliance), anti-discrimination, affirmative action and equal employment opportunity. While the objective of these approaches may be to ensure equity management in order to encourage equal outcomes the results tell a different story. Results show that an affirmative action approach to equity management predicts increases in women in management across all tiers of management.     

Bridging the Relevance Gap: Aligning Stakeholders in the Future of Management Research

This report examines the relevance gap in management research. Its focus is the nature of knowledge created by research at the interface between business and academia in the context of major changes likely to affect the nature of demand for such knowledge. Management research has been accused of a lack of relevance to managerial practice and of too narrow a discipline base. The report examines the conditions giving rise to this criticism, in the UK and elsewhere, and identifies an important strategic need to increase the stakeholding of users in various aspects of the research and knowledge creation and dissemination process. The report concludes with recommendations concerning new forms of research partnership and research training that will address the relevance gap. However, bridging this gap does not only require changes in the academic mind-set. Managers and firms too need to rethink their involvement in the research process.     

关于中国管理实践的评价

在总结国际应用系统分析研究所、许国志院士以及物理-事理-人理系统方法论对实践工作的评价方法的基础上,通过所参与的开发管理信息系统项目和我国区域发展战略2个案例,简析了中国管理实践的评价问题。     

指示优先级的程式化管理科学研究方法——治理学术界与企业界脱节顽症的一种手段

为治理管理学领域学术界与企业界脱节的顽症,基于法理学和指示优先级程式方法,提出指示优先级的程式化管理科学研究方法:将研究复杂管理问题的过程分解成相互关联的4个活动方面和8个主要活动,构成管理科学研究中的"指示优先级轮",以保持各个活动方面和主要活动的均衡为原则,纠正研究过程中的不平衡现象.分析了该方法的理论含义,剖析这一方法为什么有助于促进理论与实践相结合,从而解决理论与实践脱节问题,并阐述指示优先级程式方法的实践应用.实践应用表明:该方法的应用,可避免管理科学研究中重理论轻实践或重实践轻理论2种偏向,使管理研究过程的管理科学理论与管理实践行为相结合.     

中国企业管理实践研究的内涵认知

内涵是对事物本质属性的反映,借助于对管理的内涵及其基本假设的认识,中国管理实践研究的内涵就是寻找出中国管理实践的本质属性,具体体现为3个方面的重要问题:中国管理实践的重大问题是什么;中国管理实践的独创性在哪里;中国管理实践的发展脉络是什么。     

“中国实践管理”相关研究热点分析

通过对国家自然科学基金委员会管理科学部认定的30种重要期刊2001～2011年发表的有关"中国实践管理"的研究成果的分析,总结了中国管理实践研究现状及热点问题。基于此,对中国管理学研究未来发展进行了思考与展望。     

Towards Common Ground and Trading Zones in Management Research and Practice

The purpose and nature of management scholarship is contested, evidenced by debates about the ‘academic–practitioner divide’ and attendant remedies for addressing it, including mode 2 and mode 3 research, engaged scholarship, evidence‐based management and design science. In this paper the authors argue that, without a culture of dialogical encounter, management scholarship will never be able to emerge from its adolescence, and management will not develop into the profession that it should and can become. The central proposition is that the highly fragmented landscape of management (practice and scholarship) lacks sufficient capability for dialogue among the plurality of actors situated across that landscape. Developing the dialogical capability ultimately required to break this fundamental impasse demands, first, a shared sense of purpose and responsibility (akin to the Hippocratic Oath in medicine) and, second, institutional entrepreneurship to establish more and better ‘trading zones’. Drawing on the philosophy of pragmatism, the authors further this endeavour by identifying and proposing key elements of a statement of shared purpose and responsibility. Finally, they explore the nature and characteristics of successful trading zones, highlighting particular examples that have already been created in management studies.     

高职物流管理专业改革与实践

本文指出高职物流人才的培养在物流业发展中的重要性,就湖南交通职业技术学院不断探索、改革、创新的物流管理专业建设实践进行了阐述,为我国高职物流管理专业建设与发展提供参考与借鉴.     

Information Systems Management Issues: Reporting and Relevance*

Reports of key information systems issues have been published over the last two decades in many journals. Leading IS journals (e.g., MIS Quarterly, Information & Management, among others) have published key IS management issue reports every three or four years over the last 15 years, and will probably continue to provide such reports in the future. Although these reports claim to provide decisional guidance to practitioners, researchers, consultants, etc., the authors in their experience have noted concerns about their usefulness. While not questioning the validity of the methods and analysis conducted in these studies, we address two important questions in this article: the manner of reporting of the key issue results (which might be misleading), and the relevance of the results (are they providing what they intended to?). We hope that our discussion will provide new perspectives in making resource allocation decisions to both readers and authors of key issue articles.     

管理学术期刊的职责和使命——基于管理研究与实践脱节的分析

管理学术期刊是连接管理研究与管理实践的桥梁之一,在管理研究的内部知识循环以及管理研究和实践间的外部知识循环中扮演了关键的角色。从管理研究和实践脱节的角度分析,可以发现目前的管理学术期刊模糊的定位及其评审和排名仅仅是促进了管理知识的内部循环。为了保证管理研究的内外知识循环能够顺利实现,依据管理研究的类型,指出管理学术期刊可以分为源期刊和专业性期刊2种类型,并提出相应的评审与排名的调整策略。     

管理的本质以及管理研究的评价

我国管理研究评价中,纯粹的理论化和纯粹的实践导向都会阻碍管理研究的发展,因此,有必要构建更为科学合理的评价体系,来提升管理研究的质量。在分析管理的本质、管理研究的特点以及管理研究成果表现形式的基础上,提出管理研究应该注重学术知识和经验知识的糅合、显性知识和隐性知识的转化乃至智慧的获取。针对管理成果的具体表现形式,将理论与应用、知识与智慧2个维度纳入管理研究评价,构建了管理研究评价的整合模型。     

分布式认知理论及其在管理实践中的应用

介绍了一种新的认知理论--分布式认知理论.在分布式认知"信息发布-信息筛选判断-认知收敛"的系统流程中,重点论述了分布式认知的收敛机制,并根据决策中心所处的位置及决策特征提出了无中心式、弱中心式、强中心式3种收敛机制.结合一系列管理实践案例对比了3种收敛机制的作用.结果发现,合理运用不同类型的分布式认知收敛机制,能够有效提高民主管理、跨专业难题解决、竞争情报收集分析、公共管理等领域决策的准确性.     

调节变量在中国管理学研究中的应用

选取国家自然科学基金委员会管理学部的A类期刊进行细化并最终确定14种期刊为研究对象,回顾了2005～2010年已公开发表的171篇实证研究论文。以调节变量应用过程中涉及的主要问题为分析框架,结合具体的实证研究,归纳、整理了国内管理学研究中使用调节变量的现状及问题,希望对未来中国管理学的发展有一定指导意义。