Great Minds in Management The Process of Theory Development

In Great Minds In Management Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt have brought together some of the most influential and original thinkers in management. Their contributions to this volume not only outline their landmark contributions to management theory, but also reflect on the process of theory development, presenting their own personal accounts of the gestation of these theories. The result is not only an ambitious and original panorama of the key ideas in management theory presented by their originators, but also a unique collection of reflections on the process of theory development, an area which to date little has been written about by those who have actually had experience of building theory. In their concluding chapter, Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt draw together some common themes about the development of management theory over the last half a century, and suggest some of the conclusions to be drawn about how theory comes into being.

1 - The Process of Developing Mangement Theory
2 - The Evolution of Social Cognitive Theory
3 - Image Theory
4 - The Road to Fairness and Beyond
5 - Proactive Individualism
6 - Upper Echelons Theory: Origins, Twists and Turns, and Lessons Learned
7 - Goal Setting Theory: Theory Building by Induction
8 - How Job Characteristics Theory Happened
9 - Do Employee Attitudes Towards Organizations Matter? The Study of Employee Commitment to Organizations
10 - Developing Psychological Contract Theory
11 - The Escalation of Commitment: Steps Toward an Organizational Theory
12 - On the Origins of Expectancy Theory
13 - Double-Loop Learning in Organizations: A Theory of Action Perspective
14 - Where Does Inequality Come From? The Personal and Intellectual Roots of Resource-Based Theory
15 - Organizational Effectiveness: Its Demise and Re-Emergence Through Positive Organizational Scholarship
16 - Managerial and Organizational Cognition: Islands of Coherence
17 - Develping Theory About the Development of Theory
18 - Managing Organizational Knowledge: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations
19 - The Experience of Theorizing: Sensemaking as Topic and Resource
20 - The Development of Stakeholder Theory: An Idiosyncratic Approach
21 - Developing Resouce Dependence Theory: How Theory is Affected by its Environment
22 - Institutional Theroy: Contributing to a Theoretical Research Program
23 - Transaction Cost Economics: The Process of Theory Development
24 - Developing Evolutionary Theory for Economics and Management
25 - An Evolutionary Approach to Institutions and Social Construction: Process and Structure
26 - Learning How to Develop Theory from the Masters

Ken G. Smith is the Dean's Chaired Professor of Business Strategy at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park. Professor Smith is a former editor of the Academy of Management Review, and has co-authored and edited books on strategy and organizational cooperation. He is currently th eVice President and Program Chair of the Academy of Management. Michael A. Hitt is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Joseph Foster Chair in Business Leadership and the C.W. and Dorothy Conn Chair in New Ventures at Texas A&M University.Professor Hitt has written and edited numerous books and articles, including recently Mergers and Acquisitions: A Guide to Creating Value for Stakeholders (OUP, 2001). Professor Hitt has received awards for his writing and research, including the Distinguished Service Award from the Academy of Management in 2001.