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100 _aBenders, Jos
245 _aWhat's in a fashion? interpretative viability and management fashions
260 _c2001
300 _ap.33-53
362 _aFeb
520 _aBuilding and reacting on the most influential article on the topic, namely, `Management Fashion' by Abrahamson (Academy of Management Review 21(1), 1996), we propose that management fashions are best conceptualized as `the production and consumption of temporarily intensive management discourse, and the organizational changes induced by and associated with this discourse'. This conceptualization allows us to take account of `interpretative viability', a certain degree of ambiguity about a fashion's content, and its consequences for the dynamics involved in the ongoing shaping and reshaping of a concept's connotations. Our arguments are illustrated by drawing on a variety of empirical work on Business Process Reengineering in the Netherlands. - Reproduced
650 _aManagement
700 _aVeen, Kees van
773 _aOrganization
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999 _c47780
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