... simplified perspectives. General management Leadership Linguistics Given the prominence of the paradigms of management and leadership in both theory and practice, it is not surprising that there has been a dramatic evolution of new developments, theories, research and practices relating...

... be the most critical issue in the “bad sale” of OB research data and theories. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Organizational behaviour General management Action research The theory‐practice gap in OB, which is ever widening into a gulf, has been raised before by other...

... on this shortfall that we sample in Table I , and all kinds of solutions are being proposed to deal with what came to be called the “relevance gap”, some of which we recall in Table II . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Management technique General management Action research Innovation...

... as practice. Ian Fillis can be contacted at: i.r.fillis@stir.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Metaphors Arts Marketing theory General management The main purpose of this paper is to move beyond the widespread linear/rational mode of thinking which permeates marketing...

...Hester Nienaber; Gerrie Roodt Purpose This paper aims to determine the views of a select group of manager‐students on general management and leadership and whether or not their views correspond to classical management theory. Design/methodology/approach An exploratory‐descriptive approach...