The Diffusion and Consumption of Business Knowledge

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • José Luis Alvarez

      Pages 1-9

3. The Basic Institutional Framework of Business Knowledge Transmission and Reception

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. The Sociological Tradition and the Spread and Institutionalization of Knowledge for Action

      • José Luis Alvarez

      Pages 13-57

   3. Management as a System of Knowledge and Authority

      • Haldor Byrkjeflot

      Pages 58-80

   4. Mercury and Minerva: A Modern Multinational Academic Business Studies on a Global Scale

      • Lars Engwall

      Pages 81-109

   5. The Transfer of Organizational Techniques Across Borders: Combining Neo-Institutional and Comparative Perspectives

      • María Eugenia Arias, Mauro Guillén

      Pages 110-137

4. Vehicles for the Popularization of Business Ideas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. The Creation of Popular Management Texts

      • Staffan Furusten

      Pages 141-163

   3. The Popularization of Business Knowledge Diffusion: From Academic Knowledge to Popular Culture?

      • Carmelo Mazza

      Pages 164-181

   4. Professional Associations as ‘Brokers’, Facilitating Networking and the Diffusion of New Ideas: Advantages and Disadvantages

      • Sue Newell, Maxine Robertson, Jacky Swan

      Pages 182-200

   5. The Quality Virus: Inter-Organizational Contagion in the Adoption of Total Quality Management

      • Juan C. Pastor, James Meindl, Raymond Hunt

      Pages 201-218

5. The Implementation of Management Knowledge: Begining and End of its Creation, Diffusion and Consumption

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

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   2. The Role of Consulting Knowledge in the Transformation of Work in Contemporary Europe

      • Roger Penn

      Pages 220-228

   3. Strategic Seduction? Information Technology Consultancy in UK Financial Services

      • Andrew Sturdy

      Pages 229-249

   4. Going Local: The Hybridization Process as Situated Learning

      • Hope Finney Botti

      Pages 250-277

   5. Where does Management Knowledge come from?

      • Nitin Nohria, Robert G. Eccles

      Pages 278-304

6. Back Matter

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In the context of a united Europe the influence of business knowledge has become increasingly relevant, as managers, employees and organisations have to learn new practices and techniques in response to new knowledge and institutions. This book addresses the way in which administrative knowledge is produced, diffused and consumed in Europe by academics, management gurus, publishing houses, consultants and practitioners. It also looks at its impact on European business systems and management practices.

• consumption
• culture
• hybridization
• Information Technology (IT)
• knowledge
• learning
• management
• networking
• organization
• organizations
• quality
• rhetoric
• sociology
• transformation
• work

• IESE, International Graduate School of Management, University of Navarra, Spain

  José Luis Alvarez

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