Management studies in crisis: fraud, deception and meaningless research

Table of contents

Introduction: the Crisis in Management Studies
Chapter 1 - Flawed from the Get-Go: the Early Misadventures of Management Research
Chapter 2 - How Audit Damages Research and Academic Freedom
Chapter 3 - ‘When the Levee Breaks’: Academic Life on the Brink
Chapter 4 - The Corruption of Academic Integrity
Chapter 5 - Paradise Lost but Not Regained: Retractions and Management Studies
Chapter 6 - The Triumph of Nonsense in Management Studies
Chapter 7 - Flawed Theorising, Dodgy Statistics and (In)Authentic Leadership Theory
Chapter 8 - The Promises, Problems and Paradoxes of Evidence-Based Management
Chapter 9 - Reclaiming Meaningful Research in Management Studies
Chapter 10 - Putting Zest and Purpose Back into Academic Life
Notes
Index

More students study management and organization studies than ever, the number of business schools worldwide continues to rise, and more management research is being published in a greater number of journals than could have been imagined twenty years ago. Dennis Tourish looks beneath the surface of this progress to expose a field in crisis and in need of radical reform. He identifies the ways in which management research has lost its way, including a remoteness from the practical problems that managers and employees face, a failure to replicate key research findings, poor writing, endless obscure theorizing, and an increasing number of research papers being retracted for fraud and other forms of malpractice. Tourish suggests fundamental changes to remedy these issues, enabling management research to become more robust, more interesting and more valuable to society. A must read for academics, practising managers, university administrators and policy makers within higher education.

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