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Sub-theme 32:
The (Co-)Consumption of Management Ideas and Practices
Convenors:
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Session I: Thursday, July
10 – 11:00–12:30
General Perspectives on the Co-Consumption of Management Ideas and
Practices |
Chair: Alfred Kieser
Andrew Sturdy, Andreas Werr and Stefan Heusinkveld
Introduction
Kjell Arne Røvik
A virus theory of the adoption and consumption of popular
management ideas
Richard Dunford and Ian Palmer
'Steal with pride': Why the adoption of new management ideas and
practices cannot be assumed
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Session
II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Management Ideas and the Consultant-Client Relationship |
Chair: Richard Dunford
Christopher Wright and Andrew Sturdy
Both client and consultant: Managers as gatekeepers, knowledge
brokers and partners
Lovisa Näslund and Frida Pemer
Making or breaking trust? The impact of client – Consultant
interaction on the dissemination and consumption of management ideas
Michael Mohe, Stephanie Birkner and Jost Sieweke
The client as a 'professional' consumer of consulting services? A
quantitative study of German client firms
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Session III: Friday, July
11 – 9:00–10:30
Management Knowledge, Power and Consulting |
Chair: Michael Mohe
Katharina Schneider and Michael Faust
Functional equivalents to external consulting: A case study on a
reluctant German corporation
Simon Bishop and John Wilson
Consuming consultants: Evidence on the consumption of management
consultancy from the history of Trebor (1907–1989)
Darren McCabe
The effectiveness movement: A manifesto for revolution?
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Session IV: Friday, July
11
– 14:00–15:30
Management Knowledge for Management Learning? |
Chair: Michael Faust
Clare Rigg
Talk as action
Johan Berglund, Olof Karnell, Martin Rogberg and Andreas Werr
The linguistic turn in executive MBA programs: On practitioners'
experience of relevance in MBA programs
Lars Leiner and Alfred Kieser
What kind of management knowledge do German executive MBA
students find informative when writing their master theses?
Claudia Groß, Stefan Heusinkveld and Jos Benders
Events with all the trimmings: How clients consume management
gurus' seminars
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Session V: Friday, July 11
– 16:15–17:45
Agency and Interactions in Co-Consumption |
Chair: Jos Benders
Hélène Giroux and Viviane Sergi
Professionals and management fashions: The case of the quality
movement
Monica Rolfsen
The co-construction of management ideas
Irene Lorentzen Hepsø and Vidar Hepsø
Creation of work practices through the interaction of BPR, TQM
and HES
Thanos Papadopoulos
Exploring the consumption of a global management idea in health
care: a study of lean thinking implementation in UK national health
service
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Session VI: Saturday, July
12 – 9:00–10:30
External Institutions in Co-Consumption: Business Systems, Culture and
Capital
Markets |
Chair: Renate Meyer
Mehmet Erçek
Spread of management fashions in peripheral business systems:
Turkish business groups' knowledge broker role in consuming,
adopting and diffusing Six Sigma
Haldor Byrkjeflot and Stefan Tengblad
Management ideas in the formation of national management cultures
Ann-Christine Schulz and Alexander Nicolai
Management fashions, core competencies, and analysts' forecast
bias
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Session VII: Saturday,
July 12 – 11:15–12:45
The Rhetoric and Reality of Co-Consumption |
Chair: Kjell Arne Røvik
Markus Höllerer and Renate Meyer
The (co-)utilization of competing management ideas and
heterogeneous practices: Shareholder value and corporate social
responsibility in Austrian corporations
Isabelle Corbett and Eléonore Mounoud
The production/consumption duality of management ideas and
practices: The case of knowledge management
Nevan Wright
Adapting Six Sigma to small and medium enterprises |
