Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Sociological Tradition and the Spread and Institutionalization of Knowledge for Action

Chapter 3 Management as a System of Knowledge and Authority

Chapter 4 Mercury and Minerva: A Modern Multinational Academic Business Studies on a Global Scale

Chapter 5 The Transfer of Organizational Techniques Across Borders: Combining Neo-Institutional and Comparative Perspectives

Chapter 6 The Creation of Popular Management Texts

Chapter 7 The Popularization of Business Knowledge Diffusion: From Academic Knowledge to Popular Culture?

Chapter 8 Professional Associations as ‘Brokers’, Facilitating Networking and the Diffusion of New Ideas: Advantages and Disadvantages

Chapter 9 The Quality Virus: Inter-Organizational Contagion in the Adoption of Total Quality Management

Chapter 10 The Role of Consulting Knowledge in the Transformation of Work in Contemporary Europe

Chapter 12 Going Local: The Hybridization Process as Situated Learning

Chapter 13 Where does Management Knowledge come from?