02208nam a22001817a 4500 121008t xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0199276811 HD31.G735 Great minds in management: the process of theory development. / edited by Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt New York: Oxford University Press, c2005. xiii, 600 p.: ill.; 25cm. Includes index. Contents: Individuals and their environment: The Evolution of social cognitive theory -- Image theory -- The Road to fairness and beyond -- Grand theories and mid-range theories: cultural effects on theorizing and the attempt to understand active approaches to work -- Upper echelons theory: origins, twists and and turns, and lessons learned -- Goal setting theory: theory building by induction -- How job characteristics theory happened -- Do employee attitudes towards organizations matter? The study of employee commitment to organizations -- Developing psychological contract theory -- The Escalation of commitment: steps toward an organizational theory -- On the origins of expectancy theory -- Behavior of organizations: Double-loop learning in organizations: a theory of action perspective -- Where does inequality come from? The re-emergence through positive organizational cognition: islands of coherence -- Developing theory about the development of theory -- Managing organizational knowledge: theoretical and methodological foundations -- The Experience of theorizing: sensmaking as topic and resource -- Environmental contingencies and organizations: The Development of stakeholder theory: an idiosyncratic approach -- Developing resource dependence theory: how theory is affected by its environment -- Institutional theory: contributing to a theoretical research program -- Transaction cost economics: the process of theory development -- Developing evolutionary theory for economics management -- An Evolutionary approach to institutions and social construction: process and structure -- Epilogue: learning to develop theory from the masters. Management Smith, Ken G. Hitt, Michael A. lcc BK 2408 9908 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 REF 2012-10-08 0 HD31.G735 6150/12 2012-10-08 00:00:00 2012-10-08 BK