With a global drive towards implementing total quality management (TQM), the number of TQM failures is also increasing …. One of the major reasons cited for these failures is lack of management commitment. However, no attempt has been made to …’s product quality, and provides some evidence that management’s lack of recognition of the importance of product quality in …

Outlines the broad area of research into and, theory development of, public services management (PSM). Deals with …

challenging the quantitative/qualitative divide within organisation and management research. Design/methodology/approach – The … useful these methodologies are in terms of carrying us from the world of practice to theory and vice‐versa. If methodologies …

theory. In the light of the findings which show a modest degree of structure, the article discusses how far hotels …

constructivistic management theory. Argues that how these problems and paradoxes are solved is the foundation for an alternative … management theory. Points out that the alternative management theory is to be empirically based. Empirical data is, therefore …Presents and criticizes the existing management literature. Shows that there exist unsolved problems and paradoxes in …

management practice. It uses this framework to construct a taxonomy that enables the identification of the competing … philosophical paradigms that underpin contending perspectives on what constitutes “good” management practice, so enabling the … philosophically coherent approach to management. Thereon, the implications for management development are explicated.  …

An analysis of five concepts of management from an organizational theoretical approach reveals a common organizational … or poorly‐solved problems for human resources management, most of which result from the implicit premiss of an all …