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Managerial Behaviour Research in Private and Public Sectors: Distinctiveness, Disputes and Directions

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  • Mirko Noordegraaf
  • Rosemary Stewart

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A managerial behaviour approach is identified that has sought to understand managerial work by analysing the day‐to‐day behaviour of individual managers: what do managers do? It is argued that this approach is distinctive and that its distinctiveness is valuable and has not received adequate attention. The distinctiveness is defined by its research background, object, focus and methodology. The managerial behaviour approach has developed from research over nearly fifty years: long enough for there to have been a variety of disputes about what has, or ought to have been, achieved. The relevance of these criticisms and what later research has done to meet them is assessed. Recent research directions are identified and suggestions are made for building on the distinctiveness. It is concluded that the institutional embeddedness of managerial work should attract further scholarly attention, and that the contribution of researchers in the public sector, who come from a differentdisciplinary background, needs to be integrated with that of researchers from organizational behaviour as they can contribute new conceptual approaches, which could help to revivify this field of research.

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  • Mirko Noordegraaf & Rosemary Stewart, 2000. "Managerial Behaviour Research in Private and Public Sectors: Distinctiveness, Disputes and Directions," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 37(3), pages 427-443, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jomstd:v:37:y:2000:i:3:p:427-443
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-6486.00187
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