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This book shows the societal costs and significant damage caused by mismanagement and other forms of managerial amateurism.
The Quest for Professionalism calls upon management scholars to drive the intrinsic transformation of the profession at large toward management as a technology for distributing power and leadership throughout the organization.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: The Professionalization Challenge
- 2: Purpose and Professionalization
- 3: Toward a Body of Knowledge
- 4: Behavior, Expectation, and Trading Zones
- 5: Discovering Circular Organizing
- 6: Validating Circular Organizing
- 7: Beyond Shareholders and Stakeholders
- 8: Implications and Conclusions
- Appendix 1: Example of Symposium
- Appendix 2: Overview of Methods
About the author
Georges Romme is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), in The Netherlands. He studied economics at Tilburg University and obtained a doctoral degree from Maastricht University. Until 2014, Georges served as Dean of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences at TU/e. In the early 1990s, Georges Romme introduced Boolean comparative analysis in the field of management studies, and also pioneered the Thesis Circle, a tool for collaboratively supervising graduation projects. Moreover, he is one of the original pioneers who (re)introduced design thinking and the design sciences to management and organization studies. He serves as a non-executive director on a variety of boards.
Summary
This book shows the societal costs and significant damage caused by mismanagement and other forms of managerial amateurism. The Quest for Professionalism calls upon management scholars to drive the intrinsic transformation of the profession at large toward management as a technology for distributing power and leadership throughout the organization.
