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9780415327817

Demystifying Business Celebrity

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415327817

  • ISBN10:

    0415327814

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-09-24
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Management gurus have been identified as the progenitors of many recent fashionable management ideas. Central to the existing literature is management gurus' portrayal as extraordinary individuals with extraordinary ideas and powers of self-promotion. In other words, management gurus themselves are credited as being wholly responsible for the creation and dissemination of the ideas for which they are known. This book shows that this characterization of management gurus does not stand up to empirical scrutiny. The authorsa?? research on the activities of management gurus shows that they collaborate with a range of professional groups during the course of developing (including editors and publishers, ghost writers, agents, consultants, academics, and managers), revising and disseminating their ideas. Based on the primary research of management gurus, book editors and publishers, this book adopts a novel conceptual / theoretical perspective and brings together insights from themanagement, sociological and cultural studies literatures.

Author Biography

Eric Guthey is Associate Professor of Intercultural Communication and Management at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Timothy Clark is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Durham Business School, UK. He has authored a number of books including Management Speak, with David Greatbalch (Routledge, 2005). Brad Jackson is the Fletcher Building Education Trust Chair in Leadership at The University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand. His previous books include Management Gurus and Management Fashions (Routledge, 2001).

Table of Contents

List of figuresp. ix
Acknowledgementsp. xi
Why demystifying business celebrities mattersp. 1
Business celebrities and the celebrity businessp. 17
Management gurus as management fashion celebritiesp. 40
The many laces of business celebrityp. 67
Open season: the perennial backlash against business celebritiesp. 95
The celebrification of heroic leadershipp. 120
The production of celebrities and the production of leadershipp. 144
List of referencesp. 157
Indexp. 169
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