Great minds in management : the process of theory development / edited by Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the process of developing management theory / Michael A. Hitt and Ken G. Smith -- The evolution of social cognitive theory / Albert Bandura -- Image theory / Lee R. Beach and Terence R. Mitchell -- The road to fairness and beyond / Robert Folger -- Grand theories and mid-range theories : cultural effects on theorizing and the attempt to understand active approaches to work / Michael Frese -- Upper echelons theory : origins, twists, and turns, and lessons learned -- Goal setting theory : theory building by induction / Edwin A. Locke and Gary P. Latham -- How job characteristics theory happened / Greg R. Oldham and J. Richard Hackman -- Do employee attitudes towards organizations matter? : the study of employee commitment to organizations / Lyman W. Porter, Richard M. Steers and Richard T. Mowday -- Developing psychological contract theory / Denise M. Rousseau -- The escalation of commitment : steps toward an organizational theory / Barry M. Staw -- On the origins of expectancy theory / Victor H. Vroom -- Double-loop learning in organizations : a theory of action perspective / Christ Argyris -- Where does inequality come from? : the personal and intellectual roots of resource-based theory / Jay B. Barney -- Organizational effectiveness : its demise and re-emergence through positive organizational scholarship / Kim Cameron -- Managerial and organizational cognition : islands of coherence / Anne S. Huff -- Developing theory about the development of theory / Henry Mintzberg -- Managing organizational knowledge : theoretical and methodological foundations / Ikujiro Nonaka -- The experience of theorizing : sensemaking as topic and resource / Karl E. Weick -- The development of stakeholder theory : an idiosyncratic approach / R. Edward Freeman -- Developing resource dependence theory : how theory is affected by its environment / Jeffrey Pfeffer -- Institutional theory : contributing to a theoretical research program / W. Richard Scott -- Transaction cost economics : the process of theory development / Oliver E. Williamson -- Developing evolutionary theory for economics and management / Sidney G. Winter -- An evolutionary approach to institutions and social construction : process and structure / Lynn G. Zucker and Michael R. Darby -- Epilogue : learning to develop theory from the masters / Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt.

In Great Minds in Management, Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt have brought together some of the most influential and original thinkers in management. Their contributions to this volume not only outline their contributions to management theory, but also reflect on the process of theory development, presenting their own personal accounts of the gestation of these theories. The result is not only a panorama of the key ideas in management theory presented by their originators, but also a collection of reflections on the process of theory development.