Empowerment is not merely a new buzzword introduced to capture the imagination of current trends in management science …. It comprises an innovative approach to working with people and a shift from top‐down management styles which have … dominated control mechanism and managerial concepts in both theory and practice since the industrial revolution. This paper …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …