
Mats Alvesson
Professor

Management is the solution: Now what was the problem? On the fragile basis for managerialism
Author
Summary, in English
This paper critically investigates the impact and meaning of managerialism in a pharmaceutical firm by exploring its shaky basis. Managers' explanations of the failure in research leading to new products showed considerable variety. This reflects the absence of any shared understanding of research inefficiencies and difficulties to determine the roots of the problems. Despite this people blame bad management and put hope to improved responsibility of managers. The study highlights the ambiguity of causes of the research inefficiencies and how this is suppressed as well as exploited by the introduction of a vague managerialist agenda. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Department/s
- Department of Business Administration
- Institute of Economic Research
Publishing year
2011
Language
English
Pages
349-361
Publication/Series
Scandinavian Journal of Management
Volume
27
Issue
4
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Elsevier
Topic
- Business Administration
- Economics and Business
Keywords
- Management
- Managerialism
- Ambiguity
- Knowledge-intensive firm
- Knowledge work
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0956-5221