Bad management

“Bad management” is the topic of many movies and even has its own cartoons. There seems to be a general consensus that there was a high price to pay for “bad” management. The question has even been debated whether “no management” was better than “bad management”. And bad management has also been linked to causing stress.

Indeed, it does – also for the researcher, struggling with a non-implementation of ideas, concepts, new developments in practice. Research is often criticised for its detachment from practice. But whom are we conducting research for? Numerous journals have as their aim to contribute to management practice. (As for the (bad?) management of research, there is an open-access journal or research practice…)

But is research (generally, not just SCM research) to be seen an answer to bad management? Or should we keep on pushing the envelope, developing new ideas and concepts?

Gyöngyi