TY - JOUR AB - Lists the main themes of management theory and outlines how management practice can be very different. Notes that the reduction in job security and the increasing use of performance measures and targets should not mean a return to old and discredited ways of managing and working. VL - 25 IS - 3 SN - 0143-5124 DO - 10.1108/01435120410522361 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/01435120410522361 AU - Line Maurice B. PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/01/01 TI - Management musings 16: must good theory be defeated by external pressures? T2 - Library Management PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 146 EP - 147 Y2 - 2024/05/11 ER -