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Friday, 13 January 2017

A list of management theories

My students, when doing their capstone research projects, need a management theory to relate their findings to. Sometimes it is hard for them to find an appropriate theory.

So I went looking for a list of management theories. I thought that this would be a relatively easy thing to find.

 However, it proved to be a bit like rocking horse ...er... excrement. A mythical beast.

 So I created one myself.

I have decided to relate all theories relating to the business environment that I encountered to a business sub-category. While many of them are grounded in career practice or psychology, they have been assigned a business category.

 The categories are:
  • Buyer Behaviour
  • Change Management
  • Economics
  • Ethics
  • Financial Management
  • Governance
  • HR
  • Innovation
  • International Business
  • Leadership
  • Learning Management
  • Management
  • OB (Org. Behaviour)
  • Organisational Design
  • Research
  • Strategic Management
I included in my list - as best as I can determine - the theory's title, the creator's names, the creation date, all with an assigned category.

The list of over three hundred theories can be accessed and downloaded from here.

I would welcome feedback on additions, corrections and comments!

Sam

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8 comments :

  1. Unknown29 December 2017 at 20:33

    Thanks Mr Young for this Management Theories compilation,it's helpful.

    Thanks and Regards
    Gaurav Jain
    Participant- Doctoral Program (Industry) IIM-Indore
    India

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  2. Sam Young29 December 2017 at 21:14

    Thanks Guarav: much appreciated!

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  3. Andrew Grice9 November 2018 at 03:19

    The link doesn't work, can it be fixed?

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    1. Sam Young9 November 2018 at 06:31

      Thanks so much for letting me know, Andrew: I will relink this later today!

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    2. Sam Young9 November 2018 at 09:27

      Hi Andrew: updated now :-)

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  4. Anonymous25 December 2022 at 07:18

    This is really very useful Mr. Young...thanks for sharing with us! Cheers

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  5. Sandeep Arora25 December 2022 at 07:21

    Hi Mr. Young - I am currently doing research (for my PhD) on various types of organizational structures that exist...and if there's a right structure for the right organization. Would you have some relevant theory in mind for that?

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    1. Sam Young18 January 2023 at 18:35

      A great question Sandeep: but one that is hard to answer. A good place to start on narrowing down the organisational structure topic might be to have a conversation with your supervisor. If you haven't had a supervisor assigned yet, then perhaps you need to write a pre-proposal to order your thoughts from topic to problem, and from there, to question. Read widely. A few suggestions:
      Burton, R. M., Obel, B., & DeSanctis, G. (2011). Organizational Design: A Step-By-Step Approach (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
      Laloux, F., & Wilber, K. (2014). Reinventing organizations: A guide to creating organizations inspired by the next stage of human consciousness. Nelson Parker.
      Meyer, N. D. (2017). Principle-based Organizational Structure: a handbook to help you engineer entrepreneurial thinking and teamwork into organizations of any size. NDMA Publishing.
      Roberts, J. (2007). The modern firm: Organizational design for performance and growth. Oxford University Press.
      Vitez, O., & Baligh, H. H. (2011). Organization structures: theory and design, analysis and prescription (Information and Organization Design Series). Springer.

      What I did before starting my PhD was to take a few short courses on the FutureLearn platform (e.g. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/research-project/21/todo/71567), which helped me clarify exactly what it was that I was interested in finding out.

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