IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-0-230-50920-7_1.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Case For and Against the Use of Management Tools and Techniques

In: The Right Tools for the Job

Author

Listed:
  • Andrew Cox
  • Chris Lonsdale
  • Joe Sanderson
  • Glyn Watson

Abstract

The amusing quote above might lead one to conclude that business managers are the unwitting dupes of unscrupulous academics and consultants selling snake oil. Yet the major argument in this volume, which reports the findings from a survey of the use and performance of business management tools and techniques across 237 firms in 16 different industrial sectors, is that managers are not always as gullible as some may believe (Micklethwaite & Wooldridge, 1996). Indeed, the research reported here shows that there is a definite link between the willingness of managers to use management tools and techniques and the risks that have to be managed given the functions and the types of industry sectors that they operate in. This implies that there is evidence of practitioners being able to understand when specific tools and techniques are appropriate (the right tools for the job) and also when they are not (the wrong tools for the job).

Suggested Citation

  • Andrew Cox & Chris Lonsdale & Joe Sanderson & Glyn Watson, 2005. "The Case For and Against the Use of Management Tools and Techniques," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Right Tools for the Job, chapter 1, pages 3-24, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-50920-7_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230509207_1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-50920-7_1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.