The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas

Andrew Sturdy is Professor of Management and Organisation at the University of Bristol, UK. Previously, he held posts at Imperial College London and the Universities of Bath, Melbourne and Warwick. His research lies mostly in the field of organisational innovation and the role of management consultancy. His work includes co-authored books such as Beyond Organisational Change (Macmillan), Management Consultancy (Oxford University Press) andManagement as Consultancy (Cambridge University Press). He is an associate editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry and a Visiting Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). His latest work explores consultancy in national and transnational public sector contexts, including the UK National Health Service.Stefan Heusinkveld is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management and Organization, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). His research concentrates on the production and consumption of management ideas with a special interest in studying the role of professions and occupations, management gurus, and the business media. He has published on these topics in several journals such as British Journal of Management and Journal of Management Studies. His work also includesbooks such as The Management Idea Factory (Routledge), and The Flow of Management Ideas (Cambridge University Press). He is lead coordinator of the EGOS Standing Working Group on 'Management, Occupations and Professions in Social Context'.Trish Reay is Professor in Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Alberta School of Business in Edmonton, Canada. She also holds a Visiting Distinguished Professor appointment at Warwick Business School. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief at Organization Studies. Her research interests include qualitative research methods, organizational and institutional change, professions, and professional identity. She studies these topics in the context of health care andfamily firms. Published articles from these research streams appear in Academy of Management Journal, Organization Studies, and Journal of Management Studies.David Strang is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. His research has focused on the spread of practices in the business, political, and scientific worlds. He has developed statistical methods for the study of diffusion within an event history framework and agent-based models for the simulation of booms and busts in managerial fashion. Strang is author of Learning by Example: Imitation and Innovation at a Global Bank (Princeton, 2010) and has published in journals such asAcademy of Management Journal, American Journal of Sociology and Organization Studies. He has held visiting appointments at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, INSEAD, Oxford, the University of Amsterdam, and Tel Aviv University, and received a Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford.