Great Minds in Management / The Process of Theory Development - 1st - Oxford University Press, 2007 - 602

The rules in this book show you how to inspire your team to perform and underpin your successful behaviors and actions. Acknowledgements, Introduction: The Process of Developing Management Theory, Individuals and Their Environment, The Evolution of Social Cognitive Theory, Image Theory, The Road to Fairness and Beyond, Goal Setting Theory: Theory Building by Induction, Developing Psychological Contract Theory, On the Origins of Expectancy Theory, Behavior of Organizations, Managerial and Organizational Cognition: Islands of Coherence, Developing Theory about the Development of Theory, Environmental Contingencies and Organizations, Institutional Theory: Contributing to a Theoretical Research Program, Developing Evolutionary Theory for Economics and Management, Epilogue: Learning to Develop Theory from the Masters, Index.

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