Professor Eric Abrahamson

 

Professor Eric Abrahamson

Columbia Univesity

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Management Fashion

Bandwagons

Text Analysis

Messes

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Executive & MBA Teaching

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Sulzberger Program

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Book: A Perfect Mess

Book: Change Without Pain

Mess Publications

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Abrahamson, E. 2009. Necessary conditions for the study of fads and fashions in science. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 25(2): 235-239

Abrahamson, E. 2008. 22 Things I Hate: Mini Rants on Management Research. Journal of Management Inquiry, 17(4): 422-425.

Abrahamson, E., & Eisenman, M. 2008. Employee-management Techniques: Transient Fads or Trending Fashions? Administrative Science Quarterly, 53(4): 719-744.

Tsui, A. S., Zhao, S., & Abrahamson, E. 2007. What to Study in China? Choosing and Crafting Important Research Questions. Management and Organization Review, 3(2): 171 - 326.

Abrahamson, E. 2006a. How Much Change Can Your Credit Union Handle? Point for Credit Union Research & Advice: 2-2.

Abrahamson, E. 2006b. Review of  Global Ideas: How Ideas, Objects, and Practices Travel in the Global Economy. Administrative Science Quarterly, 51(3): 512-514.

Abrahamson, E. 2004 Resource Recombination: Leveraging The People, Processes And Technology You Already Have Will Ease The Pain Of Change. Optimize.

Abrahamson, E. 2004a. Using Creative Recombination to Manage Change. Employment Relations Today (Wiley), 30(4): 33-41.

Abrahamson, E. 2004b. Try This. Sales & Marketing Management, 156(4): 17-17.

Abrahamson, E. 2004c. Managing change in a world of excessive change: Counterbalancing creative destruction and creative recombination, Ivey Business Journal, Vol. 68: 1-9: Ivey Business Journal.

Abrahamson, E. 2004d. Avoiding Repetitive Change Syndrome. MIT Sloan Management Review, 45(2): 93-95.

Abrahamson, E. 2002 Disorganization Theory and Disorganizational Behavior: Towards an Etiology of Messes. Research in Organizational Behavior 24 139-180.

Abrahamson, E., & Eisenman, M. 2001. Why management scholars must intervene strategically in the management knowledge market. Human Relations, 54(1): 67-75.

Abrahamson, E., & Van Veen, K. 2001. Accounting, Themanummer: managementmodes. Jaargang, 1248(December): 384-394.

Abrahamson, E. 2000. Change Without Pain, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 78: 75-79: Harvard Business School Publication Corp.

Abrahamson, E., & Fairchild, G. 2000. Knowledge Industries and Idea Entrepreneurs. In E. R. Kay Schoonhoven (Ed.), The Entrepreneurship Dynamic in Industry Evolution.

Abrahamson, E., & Fairchild, G. 1999. Management Fashion: Lifecycles, Triggers, and Collective Learning Processes. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44: 708-740.

Rosenkopf, L., & Abrahamson, E. 1999. Modeling Reputational and Informational Influences in Threshold Models of Bandwagon Innovation Diffusion. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 5(4): 361-384.

Abrahamson, E. 1997. The Emergence and Prevalence of Employee Management Rhetorics: The Effects of Long Waves, Labor Unions, and Turnover, 1875 to 1992. Academy of Management Journal, 40: 491-533.

Abrahamson, E., & Hambrick, D. C. 1997. Attentional Homogeneity in Industries: The Effect of Discretion. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 18: 513-532.

Abrahamson, E., & Rosenkopf, L. 1997a. Social network effects on the extent of innovation diffusion: A computer simulation. Organization Science, 8: 289-309.

Abrahamson, E., & Rosenkopf, L. 1997b. Social Network Effects on the Extent of Innovation Diffusion: A Computer Simulation, Organization Science, Vol. 8: 289-309: INFORMS: Institute for Operations Research.

Low, M. B., & Abrahamson, E. 1997. Movements, bandwagons, and clones: Industry evolution and the entrepreneurial process. Journal of Business Venturing, 12(6): 435.

Abrahamson, E., & Amir, E. 1996 The Association Between the Information Contained in the President's Letter to Shareholders and Accounting Market Variables. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 23: 1157-1182.

Abrahamson, E. 1996a. Management fashion, academic fashion, and enduring truths. Academy of Management. The Academy of Management Review, 21(3): 616.

Abrahamson, E. 1996b. Management fashion academic fashion, and enduring truths - Response. Academy of Management Review, 21(3): 616-618.

Abrahamson, E. 1996c. Management fashion. Academy of Management Review, 21: 254 - 285.

Abrahamson, E. 1996d. Technical and Aesthetic Fashions. In G. S. Barbara Czarniawska (Ed.), Translating Organizational Change. Berlin: DeGruyter.

Hambrick, D. C., & Abrahamson, E. 1995. Assessing Managerial Discretion across Industries: A Multimethod Approach. The Academy of Management Journal, 38(5): 1427-1441.

Abrahamson, E., & Fombrun, C. J. 1994. Macrocultures: Determinants and Consequences. The Academy of Management Review, 19(4): 728-755.

Abrahamson, E., & Park, C. 1994. Concealment of Negative Organizational Outcomes: An Agency Theory Perspective. Academy of Management Journal, 37(5): 1302-1334.

Abrahamson, E., & Rosenkopf, L. 1993a. Institutional and competitive bandwagons. Academy of Management Review, 18: 487-517.

Abrahamson, E., & Rosenkopf, L. 1993b. Institutional and Competitive Bandwagons: Using Mathematical Modeling as a Tool to Explore Innovation Diffusion. Academy of Management Review, 18(3): 487-517.

Abrahamson, E., & Fombrun, C. J. 1992. Forging the Iron Cage: Interorganizational Networks and the Production of Macro-Culture, Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 29: 175-194: Blackwell Publishing Limited.

Abrahamson, E. 1991. Managerial Fads and Fashions: The Diffusion and Rejection of Innovations. Academy of Management Review, 16: 586-612.

Ginsberg, A., & Abrahamson, E. 1991. Champions of Change and Strategic Shifts: The Role of Internal and External Change Advocates, Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 28: 173-190: Blackwell Publishing Limited.

Dutton, J. E., Walton, E. J., & Abrahamson, E. 1989. Important Dimensions of Strategic Issues: Separating the Wheat From the Chaff, Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 26: 379-396: Blackwell Publishing Limited.

Abrahamson, E. 1986. Organizational Fashion: The Evolution of Technological, Structural, and Strategic Norms. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Meeting, Chicago.


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