Purpose – There is little consensus among academics on how to treat management fashions. The aim of this paper is to point out how management scientists have previously dealt with consulting concepts and which ways of dealing with them seem to be appropriate. Design/methodology/approach –...

Over the past few years, corporate universities, as they are called, have become increasingly common. Independent of this, strategy process theory is also finding a place in international management research. In this paper, it will be shown that strategy process theory demonstrates an affinity...

In their constructive critique Weller, Mellewigt, and Decker elaborate some concerns on our paper on "De-Diversification activities of german corporations from 1988 to 2002: Perspectives from Agency and Management Fashion Theory". There are three main points: the operationalization of...

Die Struktur der Medienindustrie wird von Synergien zwischen alten und neuen Marktteilnehmern bestimmt. Die Diversifikationsstrategien von Medienunternehmen stehen dabei im Fokus der medienökonomischen Forschung. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Entscheidungstreiber für Diversifikations-...