On sedimentation in management fashion: an institutional perspective

Stefan Heusinkveld · Jos Benders

39 citations0/0 files storedJournal of Organizational Change Management

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Management and Organizational Studies Innovation and Knowledge Management Management Theory and Practice

Abstract

Purpose This paper aims to explore how management practitioners make sense of management fashions as sedimented elements within organizations. Design/methodology/approach To further understanding about sedimentation in management fashion, an institutional perspective was used. Findings This analysis reveals that sedimented fashions within organizations are framed as comprising different forms that are systematically associated with divergent evolution patterns. Research limitations/implications This study extends the current literature on management fashion by showing how, unlike present conceptualizations, the long‐term impact of fashionable ideas in organizations cannot be considered a single entity with a uniform pattern of development. Building on this, the paper seeks to develop a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the evolution of popular management ideas in organizational practice, which opens fruitful new research directions. Practical implications This paper may help managers, as important consumers of fashionable ideas, to better understand how elements of fashions may remain in organizations and play an important conditional role in future change initiatives. Originality/value Despite the substantial attention to the field‐level dissemination and evolution of popular management ideas in the management fashion literature, the possible long‐term impact of these ideas within organizations has received scant attention beyond the assumed transience of a fashion's discourse and the possible persistence of the organizational practices associated with a fashion.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 39 citations exist upstream.

References

1998Basics of qualitative research : techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory 1983The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields 1977Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony 2004The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields 2017The Discovery of Grounded Theory 2008Qualitative Data Analysis 1967The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge.2017Ethnographic Interview

Cited by

2019The translational diamond: robust translation of magic concept in public organizations 2020The historical evolution and popularity of activity-based thinking in management accounting 2017The diffusion of Lean in the Norwegian municipality sector: An exploratory survey 2020Have the Reports of TQM’s Death Been Greatly Exaggerated? A Re-Examination of the Concept’s Historical Popularity Trajectory 2022The potential for learning from good RRI practices and implications for the usefulness of RRI as an umbrella concept

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.