Gay Male Academics in UK Business and Management Schools: Negotiating Heteronormativities in Everyday Work Life

This paper contributes to a neglected topic area about lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people's employment experiences in UK business and management schools. Drawing on queer theory to problematize essentialist notions of sexuality, we explore how gay male academics negotiate and challenge discourses of heteronormativity within different work contexts. Using in‐depth interview data, the paper shows that gay male academics are continually constrained by heteronormativity in constructing viable subject positions as ‘normal’, often having to reproduce heteronormative values that squeeze opportunities for generating non‐heteronormative ‘queer’ sexualities, identities and selves. Constructing a presence as an openly gay academic can invoke another binary through which identities are (re)constructed: as either ‘gay’ (a cleaned up version of gay male sexuality that sustains a heteronormative moral order) or ‘queer’ (cast as radical, disruptive and sexually promiscuous). Data also reveal how gay men challenge organizational heteronormativities through teaching and research activities, producing reverse discourses and creating alternative knowledge/power regimes, despite institutional barriers and risks of perpetuating heteronormative binaries and constructs. Study findings call for pedagogical and research practices that ‘queer’ (rupture, destabilize, disrupt) management knowledge and the heterosexual/homosexual binary, enabling non‐heteronormative voices, perspectives, identities and ways of relating to emerge in queer(er) business and management schools.     

中国的商学院向何处去——中国管理教育的深层反思

从困惑、原因、思考3个方面对中国管理教育进行了深层反思,中国的商学院需要在中国、教育、人群的全方面变化中,重新寻找自己的坐标与方位,明确价值取向和社会责任,关注并认真做好顶层设计,努力探索个性化发展路径。     

创业管理:管理工作面临的新挑战

进入新世纪以来,创业与创业精神受到广泛关注,人们并不单纯研究个体的创业行为,而是将创业与创业精神拓展到已经存在的公司甚至是大公司,拓展到非赢利组织和整个社会,创业与创业精神成为动态复杂环境下管理者的思维模式和行为准则。创业管理作为一门新兴的交叉学科已经受到广泛关注,创业管理是对传统管理理论的一种挑战。本文以个体创业与公司创业的差异为主线,揭示了创业管理领域的一些具有创新性的研究课题,希望对创业管理理论和实践的探索能够起到推动作用。     

Responsible Management Education in Time of Crisis: A Conceptual Framework for Public Business Schools in Egypt and Similar Middle Eastern Context

Public Organization Review - Recent studies show that the adoption of RME scenarios is still a matter of concern for non-western countries ((Mousa et al., Journal of Management Development...     

知识工作的结构分析及模型表征

知识工作生产率问题被视为二十一世纪最大的管理挑战之一.显然,对知识工作本身规律和特征的把握是解决这一问题的前提和基础.本文在界定知识工作为非程序性、非规范性工作的基础上,对知识工作的层次性结构进行分析,建立了描述知识工作结构的树形模型.该模型描述了不同知识员工对同一工作任务的不同认识,反映了知识工作结构本身存在非程序性和非规范性特征.文章在树形结构分析的基础上,引入结构熵的概念,用以定量表述知识工作结构的非程序性和非规范性,以及知识员工对工作任务认识的不确定性.在知识工作结构熵模型的分析框架下,文章进一步就基于结构熵的生产率研究进行了探讨,从中寻求知识工作的最优生产率对应的程序性、规范性程度以及潜在的创新性行为.文章的结论指出,对于知识工作,程序化和规范化并不必然导致最优绩效.过高或过低的程序和规范都会影响知识工作的生产率.掌握知识工作的结构性特征规律,努力实现知识工作的程序化和规范化管理,同时挖掘知识工作中的创新行为,促进知识工作的共享,将是知识工作生产率提高的重要途径.     

知识工作团队中变革型领导与团队冲突管理方式研究

对来自106个团队的283名知识工作团队成员的调查结果进行研究分析,结果表明,变革型领导风格的4个维度,即德行垂范、个性关怀、愿景激励和领导魅力均能促进合作型冲突管理方式,但是只有德行垂范和个性关怀能够抑制竞争型冲突管理方式;团队心理安全在变革型领导和团队冲突管理方式之间起到部分中介作用.此外,合作型冲突管理方式对团队绩效有正向影响,竞争型冲突管理方式对团队绩效有负向影响.     

The 1996 Research Assessment Exercise for Business and Management

A substantial component of government funding for university research in the UK is now based upon an evaluation of the quality of research being conducted in each university, on a subject by subject basis. This paper describes the processes involved in the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) for business and management studies. It is argued that the strength of the current process lies in the peer review of the quality of research outputs. In addition, some of the issues needing to be resolved in undertaking such an exercise are described and evaluated. Finally, based on the authors' exposure to the full range of management research currently being conducted in the UK, some suggestions are made regarding future research directions.     

Business Ethics and Business History: Neglected Dimensions in Management Education

This article highlights two large gaps in the business school curriculum: the neglect of historical and ethical dimensions. An overview is provided of progress made so far in the UK in the evolution of business history as an academic discipline; and also of the take–up of business ethics in university teaching. Both have had some success, but overall the response to these areas has been somewhat lacklustre — at least in the UK. A justification is provided for adding both components to a fully relevant business education. When the two are combined, the result can be a highly rewarding combination that provides insights that may not be possible for management writers, who work only in the present. Corporate ethics, the social responsibility of companies, disclosure, the environment, the actions of multinational companies overseas, the dilemmas of whistle–blowing, the impact of lobby groups and health and safety issues can all be understood more fully by students if they approach these subjects from an ethical and historical standpoint.     

Understanding Business Process Management: Implications for Theory and Practice

This paper presents an empirically validated framework of business process management (BPM) to enable the pursuit of BPM theory. Phase 1 of the research focused on the development of an initial framework of BPM, derived from a synthesis of current literature. This comprised five key themes, subsequently categorized as ‘application components’ of BPM. The empirical validation of the framework was approached through case‐based research, utilizing semi‐structured interviews with managers of a large financial services organization, to explore the dimensions of the framework. The results suggest that, in addition to confirming the five ‘application components’ of the initial framework, three additional ‘conceptual components’ are important. These concepts differentiate BPM from other process management activities, and suggest that developing a prerequisite ‘process mindset’ is a fundamental component of a BPM approach.     

Explaining the Diffusion of Knowledge Management: The Role of Fashion

This paper provides evidence on the emergence and diffusion of the discourse of knowledge management. A literature review of the knowledge management and learning organization literatures demonstrates the lack of learning from one discourse to another and major differences in the concerns and issues that they address. At the same time, evidence on the level of interest in each discourse shows a tendency towards a normal curve distribution. Analytically, these findings suggest that the widespread diffusion of knowledge management might be explained in terms of the management fashion model. However, further consideration of the professionally-differentiated appropriation of knowledge management concepts by the information systems and human resource communities suggests that the fashion model provides only a partial explanation for the observed diffusion of knowledge management.     

经营、管理与效率:来自管理经典理论的价值贡献

选择泰勒、德鲁克的经典理论以及福特汽车公司、通用汽车公司的经典实践来学习经营与管理的精要:成果只存在于外部,这是经营首先需要了解的;企业经营只有一个有效定义,创造顾客;管理以解决效率问题为核心,管理之所以变得如此重要,在于其对效率的贡献。     

E‐Business: A Review of Research Published in Production and Operations Management (1992–2008)

We review, classify, consolidate, and synthesize the contributions to the expanding field of e‐business that have been published in Production and Operations Management. We classify e‐business research in the following four categories: (1) e‐auctions, (2) radio frequency identification, (3) e‐business system design, and (4) competition, conflict, collaboration, and coordination (C⁴ in e‐business). We identify important research themes, research methodologies, and research techniques within each of these categories. We also provide directions for future research and discuss the managerial implications of the e‐business research reported in our paper.