Managers' awareness of fashionable management concepts: An empirical study

Annick Van Rossem; Kees Van Veen

doi:10.1016/j.emj.2010.10.005

Managers' awareness of fashionable management concepts: An empirical study

Annick Van Rossem, Kees Van Veen^*

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Abstract

Literature on fashionable management concepts has a strong focus on the supply side. Attention to the demand side is usually restricted to implementation questions. However, between supply and implementation, there is an 'awareness phase', which has been neglected up till now. The level of awareness will vary between managers. As a result, one might expect that depending on certain contextual and individual characteristics, different subgroups of managers are aware of various concepts in different ways. As a result, the management population is not homogenous, but rather segmented. Hypotheses have been formulated to explain this segmentation based on contextual and individual characteristics. These hypotheses have been tested with 60 different management concepts on a Belgian sample of 681 respondents. The results showed the expected segmentation, but also raised interesting explanatory questions. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	206-216
Number of pages	11
Journal	European Management Journal
Volume	29
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2010.10.005
Publication status	Published - Jun-2011

Keywords

Management concept
Management fashion
Dissemination
Managers' awareness
Survey
PERSPECTIVES
SYSTEMS
MODEL

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