Comments on: The New Bashing of Economics: The Case of Management Theory http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/ Economics of organizations, strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and more Sat, 26 May 2012 19:17:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David Hoopes http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-73651 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:28:35 +0000 https://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-73651 Thanks for the link David. I like that. Good think we have Mintzberg to tell us the crisis with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG and government fiscal and monetary policy are all Harvard’s Business School’s fault. I think more specifically, we could point to Jan Rivkin, Mary Tripsas, and Denny Yao as prime examples of people promoting selfish, short-sighted, and generally boorish behavior. I’m so glad we have Henry Minzberg to protect us from the beastly Harvard sorts. And lets not even start on about Wharton!

Wish I could have posted this on the first.

]]> By: nicolai foss http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-73602 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:11:14 +0000 https://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-73602 Ha ha, David — That’s a nice April Fools message (particularly the GW Bush one).

]]> By: David Arthur http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-73601 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:50:00 +0000 https://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-73601 From the perspective of April 2009, you clowns sound like you still believe the nonsense of all those arrogant Harvard MBAs .. your own beloved GW Bush is one of them.. Check out http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2009/2526727.htm#transcript for a reasoned critique of the arrogance of those self-styled “masters of the universe”, and ask yourselves by what ethical code do they justify the ludicrous pay they award for shoving piles of paper (debt, not money) around.

]]> By: De la dimension performative des théories économiques « Rationalité Limitée http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-73100 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:15:52 +0000 https://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-73100 [...] des économistes qui publient dans des revues de gestion, et donc plutôt bien placés (voir ici, ici ou encore [...]

]]> By: thank you, economic sociology & shameless self-promotion… « orgtheory.net http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-2531 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:30:56 +0000 https://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-2531 [...] Now, for something completely different: Peter Klein at the Organizations and Markets blog has linked to a forthcoming paper I have on economic sociology. It’s a review/theory piece that takes a critical look at recent trends in economic sociology & organization theory.  Here’s what Klein says about the essay: A review and critique of contemporary economic sociology, the paper points out that “research findings and theoretical developments [in economic sociology] are rarely reconciled or integrated with economic research.” Moreover, the critics tend to deal with a stylized, and rather stale, caricature of neoclassical economics, rather than the best work in modern organizational economics, Austrian or evolutionary economics, or the newer strand of behavioral research (a point made repeatedly on these pages). A good read. [...]

]]> By: Organizations and Markets » Entrepreneurship and Business Education http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-462 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:08:08 +0000 https://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-462 [...] Addendum: Another article in the same issue of the Chronicle asks — as we've discussed here, here, and here– if economics (agency theory, in particular) is responsible for Enron. Rakesh Khurana, Herbert Gintis, and Lynn Stout, while not exactly saying Yes, seem sympathetic to the idea. Michael Jensen, not surprisingly, demurs. [...]

]]> By: Organizations and Markets » “First, Kill All the Economists …” http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-312 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:36:21 +0000 https://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-312 [...] As regular readers of O&M will know, we are highly critical of the bashing of economics that is represented by recent work by  Pfeffer, Ghoshal, Mintzberg and others (e.g., this post [...]

]]> By: Organizations and Markets » Wicksteed on “Economic Man” http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-216 Sat, 03 Jun 2006 13:51:05 +0000 https://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-216 [...] I wonder how much of the current contretemps over economic methods in organization and management is simply a re-hash of controversies already covered by Wicksteed, Clark (1, 2), Robbins, etc. [...]

]]> By: Organizations and Markets » Non-Market Motivators http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-166 Wed, 24 May 2006 17:01:29 +0000 https://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-166 [...] Some theorists and consultants say that incentive plans are harmful, that managers should rather try to instill employees with a sense of duty, collective identity, and overall communitarian spirit. If so, why not dump those dreadful motivational posters and decorate the office with these Soviet propaganda posters instead? (HT: Jeff Tucker) [...]

]]> By: orgtheory.net » Blog Archive » disciplinary rivalry http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-72 Mon, 15 May 2006 17:27:00 +0000 https://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/the-new-bashing-of-economics-the-case-of-management-theory/#comment-72 [...] Two blog posts caught my attention today. Both deal with how economics is treated by its disciplinary neighbors. In the first post, Nicolai Foss comments that management theory has become obsessed with economics bashing. Foss points to a spate of recent articles in the management literature suggesting that economics as a theoretical guide influences behavior directly through language, norms, and institutional designs. This is an obliteration, he argues, of the real intent of economic theorizing, which is to explain and predict. (I could ask, can't it be both? but I'll save that for a later post.) [...]

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