From Management Ideas to Practice: Why and How New Versions of Management Practices Emerge

Aminu Mamman

Abstract

Organizations and their managers have been criticized for corrupting management innovation whenever they adopt them. Although some of the criticisms are justified, the critiques appear to neglect the reasons why organizations adopt and modify management ideas in the first place. This partly explains why we live in two "different worlds" - the world of theory and the world of practice. The goal of this paper is to stimulate research that would lead to the development of theory on modification of management innovation. Thus, propositions and typologies on modification of management innovation have been advance in the paper. We believe this will generate debate on the topic leading to a better understanding of the issues involved in the transfer of management theory to practice.

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