Why is management a cliché?

• Main Author: HARNEY, Stefano
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: Management; General intellect; Demotics of management; Mass intellectuality; Immaterial labor; Business; Business and Corporate Communications; Strategic Management Policy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5456; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6455/viewcontent/Management_cliche_2005_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article introduces the term demotics of management by asking why so much management literature reads like a cliché. Typically this question has been approached by seeing the cliché as strategic. This article instead views the cliché as symptomatic. It marks a growing problem—how can management...