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Publication date: 1 October 2005

Scientification, immune responses, and reflection: The changing relationship between management studies and consulting

Alexander T. Nicolai and Heinke Röbken

There is little consensus among academics on how to treat management fashions. The aim of this paper is to point out how management scientists have previously dealt with…

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Purpose

There is little consensus among academics on how to treat management fashions. The aim of this paper is to point out how management scientists have previously dealt with consulting concepts and which ways of dealing with them seem to be appropriate.

Design/methodology/approach

The debate surrounding management fashions alludes to the topic, how academia demarks its borders. Thus, a concept is required with which management studies and practice can be described as distinct entities in order to juxtapose the two spheres. This is done by applying Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to the realm of management studies.

Findings

The development of academia's attitude toward consulting concepts can be subdivided into three different phases: management academics considered consulting concepts as quasi‐scientific element; these concepts were then interpreted as a “foreign body”: and, finally, they were an object of scientific reflection. The last phase includes a transformation that has started only recently. From the perspective of the theory of self‐referential systems this change can be described as a sound development and it seems unlikely that academic approaches and consulting concepts will converge. In this perspective the non‐academic character of such consultancy‐concepts becomes evident‐just like their hidden usefulness.

Originality/value

Provides insights on how management scientists deal appropriately with consulting concepts. The change in attitude towards fashionable management concepts provides information not only about the consultancy concepts, but also about an altered self‐conception of management studies.

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Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 18 no. 5
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09534810510614922
ISSN: 0953-4814

Keywords

  • Organizational change
  • Management activities
  • Management theory

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Publication date: 28 July 2014

Correlating Leadership Style, Communication Strategy and Management Fashion: An Approach to Describing the Drivers and Settings of CSR Institutionalization

Lars Rademacher and Nadine Remus

The antecedents and typical stages of development of corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs in a given organization or type of organization have been of minor…

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Purpose

The antecedents and typical stages of development of corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs in a given organization or type of organization have been of minor interest in CSR research. Contrary to that the chapter argues that CSR communication strategies need to take the genesis and drivers of CSR institutionalization into account.

Methodology/approach

The chapter develops a complex set of interrelated drivers for CSR institutionalization from a literature review – among them leadership styles and management fashion. The chapter further discusses the influence of leadership styles and management fashions on CSR institutionalization and focuses on the diffusion of management concepts along a management fashion cycle. It then refers to executive trainers as the key facilitator and promoter of new business concepts and presents data from a first online-survey among German speaking management trainers.

Findings

The chapter clears manager’s role in institutionalization of CSR by contextualizing their behavior in a portfolio of performance indicators. From a management fashion perspective the various forms of explicit and implicit CSR are linked to management styles.

Practical implications

The chapter lays ground for further research of CSR institutionalization and integration into business strategy by providing a conceptualization of CSR drivers and settings that relate to a given organization. As such it is designed as groundwork for a yet to develop CSR scorecard.

Originality/value

The connection between organizational type, organizational environment, leadership behavior, and the chosen CSR approach of a corporation is usually overseen. The chapter aims to uncover this connection.

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Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility: Perspectives and Practice
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2043-9059(2014)0000006031
ISBN: 978-1-78350-796-2

Keywords

  • CSR thinking
  • explicit and implicit CSR
  • leadership styles
  • management fashion
  • organizational learning

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Article
Publication date: 10 February 2012

On sedimentation in management fashion: an institutional perspective

Stefan Heusinkveld and Jos Benders

This paper aims to explore how management practitioners make sense of management fashions as sedimented elements within organizations.

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Purpose

This paper aims to explore how management practitioners make sense of management fashions as sedimented elements within organizations.

Design/methodology/approach

To further understanding about sedimentation in management fashion, an institutional perspective was used.

Findings

This analysis reveals that sedimented fashions within organizations are framed as comprising different forms that are systematically associated with divergent evolution patterns.

Research limitations/implications

This study extends the current literature on management fashion by showing how, unlike present conceptualizations, the long‐term impact of fashionable ideas in organizations cannot be considered a single entity with a uniform pattern of development. Building on this, the paper seeks to develop a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the evolution of popular management ideas in organizational practice, which opens fruitful new research directions.

Practical implications

This paper may help managers, as important consumers of fashionable ideas, to better understand how elements of fashions may remain in organizations and play an important conditional role in future change initiatives.

Originality/value

Despite the substantial attention to the field‐level dissemination and evolution of popular management ideas in the management fashion literature, the possible long‐term impact of these ideas within organizations has received scant attention beyond the assumed transience of a fashion's discourse and the possible persistence of the organizational practices associated with a fashion.

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Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 25 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09534811211199628
ISSN: 0953-4814

Keywords

  • Management fashion
  • Consumption of management ideas
  • Sedimentation
  • Managers

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Publication date: 1 September 1999

Where do management fashions come from, and how long do they stay?

Chester S. Spell

Recent management history has seen a surge in the number of ideas that supposedly represent the cutting edge of management progress. This paper investigates the emergence…

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Recent management history has seen a surge in the number of ideas that supposedly represent the cutting edge of management progress. This paper investigates the emergence of several of these management fashions. It examines the dissemination of fashions and the type of journals and areas from which particular fashions emerge. A bibliometric analysis is described that involved the following fashions: bench‐marking; pay for performance; quality circles; peer review; and MBO. The results of the analysis support hypotheses that fashions emerge in the popular press before academic literature and that some fashions emerge from sub‐fields before appearing throughout management publications.

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Journal of Management History, vol. 5 no. 6
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/13552529910288127
ISSN: 1355-252X

Keywords

  • Management
  • Trends
  • Innovation

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Publication date: 1 October 2006

Factors of dress affecting self‐esteem in older females

Hyun‐Mee Joung and Nancy J. Miller

The purpose of this study is to examine: direct effects of appearance management and fashion involvement on social participation; direct effects of social participation…

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Purpose

The purpose of this study is to examine: direct effects of appearance management and fashion involvement on social participation; direct effects of social participation, appearance management, and fashion involvement on self‐esteem; and indirect effects of appearance management and fashion involvement on self‐esteem through social participation.

Design/methodology/approach

A total of 389 females aged 55 and over completed a mail survey measuring appearance management, fashion involvement, social participation, and self‐esteem. Principal component factor analysis was conducted to reduce multi‐items measuring the variables. Path analysis was employed to test direct and indirect effects among the variables.

Findings

The results of path analysis showed that social participation and appearance management had direct effects on self‐esteem, whereas fashion involvement had no direct effect on self‐esteem. However, both appearance management and fashion involvement had positive indirect effects on self‐esteem via social participation.

Practical implications

To maintain self‐esteem in old age, individuals should be encouraged to participate in social activities and appearance management activities. The fashion and personal care industry should have an awareness of older female consumers' needs and develop and provide age‐related products and services.

Originality/value

This paper provides important contributions to gerontology, retailing, marketing, and consumer behavior‐related research. Although older adults (55+) are an important market segment, especially for the fashion and personal care industry, little research has included this group of consumers. This study showed that older adult females' self‐esteem was influenced by social participation, appearance management, and fashion involvement. The finding of this study helps marketers developing products targeting seniors.

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Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An International Journal, vol. 10 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/13612020610701983
ISSN: 1361-2026

Keywords

  • Fashion
  • Self esteem
  • Women
  • Older consumers

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Article
Publication date: 3 April 2017

The emergence and evolution of benchmarking: a management fashion perspective

Dag Øivind Madsen, Kåre Slåtten and Daniel Johanson

The purpose of this paper is to make a contribution to the benchmarking literature by examining the historical emergence and evolution of benchmarking using the management…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to make a contribution to the benchmarking literature by examining the historical emergence and evolution of benchmarking using the management fashion perspective as a theoretical lens.

Design/methodology/approach

The research approach followed in this paper can be characterized as explorative and theoretical. Insights from different data sources have been combined to provide a rich description of the emergence and evolution of benchmarking.

Findings

This analysis casts new light on several aspects of benchmarking’s emergence and evolution pattern. The characteristics of the benchmarking idea give it potential as a fashionable management tool. The widespread popularity and longevity of benchmarking can to a large extent be explained by the efforts of various actors to turn benchmarking into an institution.

Research limitations/implications

The paper is explorative and is limited by a reliance on secondary sources.

Originality/value

Although some researchers have noted that benchmarking could be viewed as a management fashion, management fashion theory has, only to a very limited extent, been used as a theoretical lens in the context of benchmarking. This research paper demonstrates that management fashion theory can provide valuable insights for research on benchmarking.

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Benchmarking: An International Journal, vol. 24 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/BIJ-05-2016-0077
ISSN: 1463-5771

Keywords

  • Benchmarking
  • Evolution
  • Emergence
  • Management tool
  • Management concept
  • Management fashion

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Article
Publication date: 3 December 2019

Ambidextrous innovation orientation effected by the digital transformation: A quantitative research on fashion SMEs

Veronica Scuotto, Elisa Arrigo, Elena Candelo and Melita Nicotra

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new perspective on ambidextrous innovation orientation looking at how the current digital transformation is accepted in the…

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The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new perspective on ambidextrous innovation orientation looking at how the current digital transformation is accepted in the fashion industry in Italy. Precisely, the objective of the paper is to test whether the use of social media platforms positively influences ambidextrous innovation orientation in fashion companies.

Design/methodology/approach

Empirical quantitative research was carried out on a sample of 853 small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in the fashion industry in Italy. Using a logistic regression methodology, four hypotheses were tested to verify the correlation of four dimensions of social media platforms with an ambidextrous innovation orientation among fashion firms.

Findings

The four hypotheses were validated: the structural dimension, the relational behaviour dimension, the cognitive dimension and knowledge transfer practices of social media platforms were proven to positively influence ambidextrous innovation orientation in fashion firms.

Research limitations/implications

Though this is one of the few research studies that offers a quantitative analysis in this field, it could be further developed, for instance by extending the sample of firms to SMEs operating in other countries or by comparing multinationals with SMEs.

Originality/value

This paper provides an original contribution to studies on the use of social media to promote ambidexterity in firms, which has only been studied to a limited extent in the extant literature. From this perspective, the originality of the study is further strengthened by the unique context of analysis, namely, the fashion industry in Italy.

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Business Process Management Journal, vol. 26 no. 5
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-03-2019-0135
ISSN: 1463-7154

Keywords

  • SMEs
  • Business process management
  • Fashion firms
  • Ambidextrous innovation orientation
  • Digital transformation

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Publication date: 1 June 1998

Hitch‐hiking on a hype: Dutch consultants engineering re‐engineering

Jos Benders, Robert‐Jan van den Berg and Mark van Bijsterveld

Business process re‐engineering (BPR) is described as a management fashion. Manage‐ment fashions are introduced on the market for management knowledge by fashion‐setters…

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Business process re‐engineering (BPR) is described as a management fashion. Manage‐ment fashions are introduced on the market for management knowledge by fashion‐setters, who are often consultants. Characteristic for management fashions are multi‐interpretability and promises of performance improvements. The demand for and supply of management fashions is constituted in iterative cycles. By drawing on primary and secondary data, we show how Dutch consultants handle the management fashion BPR. They tend to be highly pragmatic in using this fashionable label. In close interaction with clients, elements of the original BPR concept are dropped and notions of other concepts are included in what are called “BPR‐projects”. The label “BPR” is used for commercial reasons, yet it is easily decoupled from the original concepts and coupled to notions of other concepts. The consequences of these findings for the current literature on management fashions are discussed.

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Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 11 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09534819810216247
ISSN: 0953-4814

Keywords

  • BPR
  • Management consultants
  • Organizational change
  • The Netherlands

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Publication date: 1 July 2006

Fast fashion requires fast marketing: The role of category management in fast fashion positioning

Mandy Sheridan, Christopher Moore and Karinna Nobbs

The purpose of this article is to review the potential contributions of category management (CM) to the UK fashion sector and subsequently to establish evaluation criteria…

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The purpose of this article is to review the potential contributions of category management (CM) to the UK fashion sector and subsequently to establish evaluation criteria for the application of CM in the UK fashion sector.

Design/methodology/approach

Qualitative research was employed through an exploratory case study method.

Findings

Category management is limited in its application in the fashion industry. The study found that fashion companies adopted collaborative structures in order to implement a CM approach and a CM approach contributes to the development of a fast fashion business orientation.

Research limitations/implications

Exploratory case study method does not allow for the results to be generalised.

Originality/value

The paper proposes a model of the evaluation of the application of category management in the fashion sector.

Details

Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An International Journal, vol. 10 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/13612020610679286
ISSN: 1361-2026

Keywords

  • Customer satisfaction
  • Supply chain management
  • Fashion industry
  • Retailing
  • Buyer‐seller relationships

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Publication date: 11 September 2017

A focused supply chain strategy for luxury fashion management

Alessandro Brun, Cecilia Castelli and Hakan Karaosman

Globalization and advanced manufacturing capabilities changed industrial dynamics. To this end, not only were new retail concepts developed to broaden the distribution…

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Globalization and advanced manufacturing capabilities changed industrial dynamics. To this end, not only were new retail concepts developed to broaden the distribution toward larger consumer bases, but alternative ways were also sought to reorganize supply networks for a balance between local and global production. Yet, the choice of supply network configurations must be coherent with a fashion companies’ critical success factors. Hence, it is pivotal to understand how such large brand portfolios and global supply networks could be effectively managed in a united way. In this vein, the purpose of this paper is to explain how the triplet of product, brand, and retail channel could affect SC performance, and how the positioning of a luxury company could depend on managerial attitudes.

Design/methodology/approach

Subsequent to an extensive literature review, 30 most frequently quoted key performance indicators (KPIs) were derived. A Delphi study was then employed to reach a consensus and 17 key KPIs were derived considering the key SC performance areas and marketing dimensions. Survey technique was deployed to examine the impact of strategic combinations of product, brand, and retail channel on SC strategy. Survey results were analyzed through factor analysis where five principal components emerged to represent performance areas. ANOVA technique was then employed to explore the dependence between product-brand-retail channel and key performance areas.

Findings

Brand, retail channel, and product directly affect operational performance. The positioning of a fashion company would depend on its management attitude toward strategy segmentation and considered stage of the SC. The respondents’ profile analysis further showed a preference to segment the SC based on products. Interestingly, this finding is not aligned with earlier research (Brun and Castelli, 2008) suggesting that the brand was to become the most relevant driver for SC segmentation.

Originality/value

Academic development and empirical testing is rather rare in the luxury fashion context. Undeniably, SC strategies represent a very relevant issue for fashion companies, and the present study could be considered a first statistical step toward SC segmentation for luxury fashion companies.

Details

Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An International Journal, vol. 21 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JFMM-03-2017-0026
ISSN: 1361-2026

Keywords

  • Fashion industry
  • Segmentation
  • Brand
  • Supply chain management
  • Product
  • Retail channel

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