Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to better understand the production and diffusion of the balanced scorecard (BSC) by analyzing the reception pattern of the BSC in The Netherlands. Design/methodology/approach – Print‐media indicators and content analysis. Findings – The BSC is...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore how management practitioners make sense of management fashions as sedimented elements within organizations. Design/methodology/approach – To further understanding about sedimentation in management fashion, an institutional perspective was used. Findings...

Business process re‐engineering (BPR) is described as a management fashion. Manage‐ment fashions are introduced on the market for management knowledge by fashion‐setters, who are often consultants. Characteristic for management fashions are multi‐interpretability and promises of...