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Management is the solution: Now what was the problem? On the fragile basis for managerialism

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Summary, in English

This paper critically investigates the impact and meaning of managerialism in a pharmaceutical firm by exploring its shaky basis. Managers' explanations of the failure in research leading to new products showed considerable variety. This reflects the absence of any shared understanding of research inefficiencies and difficulties to determine the roots of the problems. Despite this people blame bad management and put hope to improved responsibility of managers. The study highlights the ambiguity of causes of the research inefficiencies and how this is suppressed as well as exploited by the introduction of a vague managerialist agenda. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

349-361

Publication/Series

Scandinavian Journal of Management

Volume

27

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Business Administration
  • Economics and Business

Keywords

  • Management
  • Managerialism
  • Ambiguity
  • Knowledge-intensive firm
  • Knowledge work

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0956-5221