Great minds in management: the process of theory development

1. Introduction : the process of developing management theory / Michael A. Hitt and Ken G. Smith

2. evolution of social cognitive theory / Albert Bandura

3. Image theory / Lee R. Beach and Terence R. Mitchell

4. road to fairness and beyond / Robert Folger

5. Grand theories and mid-range theories : cultural effects on theorizing and the attempt to understand active approaches to work / Michael Frese

6. Upper echelons theory : origins, twists and turns, and lessons learned / Donald C. Hambrick

7. Goal setting theory : theory building by induction / Edwin A. Locke and Gary P. Latham

8. How job characteristics theory happened / Greg R. Oldham and J. Richard Hackman

9. Do employee attitudes towards organizations matter? : the study of employee commitment to organizations / Lyman W. Porter, Richard M. Steers and Richard T. Mowday

10. Developing psychological contract theory / Denise M. Rousseau

11. escalation of commitment : steps toward an organizational theory / Barry M. Staw

12. On the origins of expectancy theory / Victor H. Vroom

13. Double-loop learning in organizations : a theory of action perspective / Chris Argyris

14. Where does inequality come from? : the personal and intellectual roots of resource-based theory / Jay B. Barney

15. Organizational effectiveness : its demise and re-emergence through positive organizational scholarship / Kim Cameron

16. Managerial and organizational cognition : islands of coherence / Anne S. Huff

17. Developing theory about the development of theory / Henry Mintzberg

18. Managing organizational knowledge : theoretical and methodological foundations / Ikujiro Nonaka

19. experience of theorizing : sensemaking as topic and resource / Karl E. Weick

20. development of stakeholder theory : an idiosyncratic approach / R. Edward Freeman

21. Developing resource dependence theory : how theory is affected by its environment / Jeffrey Pfeffer

22. Institutional theory : contributing to a theoretical research program / W. Richard Scott

23. Transaction cost economics : the process of theory development / Oliver E. Williamson

24. Developing evolutionary theory for economics and management / Sidney G. Winter

25. evolutionary approach to institutions and social construction : process and structure / Lynn G. Zucker and Michael R. Darby

26. Epilogue : learning to develop theory from the masters / Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt.