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How Managers Talk about their Consumption of Popular Management Concepts: Identity,Rules and Situations
Authors:Hendrik Wilhelm  Suleika Bort
Institution:1. University of Cologne, Seminar for Business Administration, Corporate Development and Organization, , 50923 Cologne, Germany;2. University of Mannheim, Department of Strategic and International Management, , 68131 Mannheim, Germany
Abstract:This paper analyses how top managers account for their consumption of popular management concepts. By ‘consumption’ we refer to managers acting as active users of popular management concepts within their organizations. After reviewing the relevant literature, we argue that the logic of appropriateness is a better theoretical perspective to view, understand and analyse managers' accounts of concept consumption than is the logic of consequence. We apply this perspective to extensive interviews we conducted with top managers in Germany. Based on the managers' own accounts of how they understand and apply popular management concepts, we identified four discourse categories: (1) learning from others' experiences, (2) controlling organizational change, (3) gaining external legitimacy and (4) collective sensemaking. We argue that these discourse categories all draw on the social norm of rationality central to managerial identity, while differing in socially defined rules about how rationality is realized in typical management situations. Our findings strongly encourage researchers, when investigating popular management concepts in the future, to take into account the situational nature of rationality that circumstantiates the consumption of concepts.
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