What is included with this book?
List of Figures | p. xi |
List of Tables | p. xii |
Notes on the Contributors | p. xiv |
Framework | |
Overcoming the rationalistic fallacy in management research | p. 3 |
Management in practice: Overview of classic studies on managerial work | p. 18 |
A practice perspective on leadership and managerial work | |
Managerial leadership as event-driven improvisation | p. 47 |
Managerial leadership: Identities, processes, and interactions | p. 69 |
Multi-framing as a tool in top management teams | p. 87 |
Operational managerial work | |
Work activities and stress among managers in health care | p. 105 |
Leadership as muddling through: Site managers in the construction industry | p. 131 |
R&D managers leading knowledge workers with care | p. 146 |
Administrative managerial work | |
Managers at the municipal top | p. 167 |
The Swedish Municipality Director: A managerial function between politics and administration | p. 190 |
Leaders of modern universities: Primi inter pares or chief executive officers? | p. 206 |
Managerial work at the top: Tracing changes in work practices and efforts towards theory development | p. 226 |
Managerial work in small businesses | |
Managerial behaviour in small firms: Does it matter what managers do? | p. 245 |
The duality of strategic managerial work in SMEs: A structuration perspective | p. 264 |
Managerial practices in family-owned firms: Strategizing actors, their arenas, and their emotions | p. 281 |
The way forward | |
Refining shadowing methods for studying managerial work | p. 301 |
Bridging the management theory and practice gap | p. 318 |
Conclusions and the way forward: Towards a practice theory of management | p. 337 |
Index | p. 357 |
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