Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Background and introduction -- 1. Establishing the art of contextualizing management ideas and panaceas as a research field -- 2. The anatomy of managerial panaceas: ontology, epistemology and technology -- 3. Turning a management innovation into a management panacea: management ideas, concepts, fashions, practices and theoretical concepts -- 4. Putting panaceas into practice ... or not: translating discourse into social practice in complex and contested terrains -- Part II. Panaceas in need of contextualization -- 5. Panacea or Pandora's box? The role of fairness perceptions and interpersonal competitiveness in determining how pay secrecy affects individual task performance -- 6. The curious case of Japanese management: a nation as a panacea -- 7. The importance of context when applying social cognitive theory in organizations -- 8. The search for panaceas in strategic human resource management: a wrong turn for HRM research? -- Part III. Contextualization by various groups of actors -- 9. The art of constructive criticism -- 10. Changing the story: management panaceas as narrative interventions -- 11. Researcher intervention in the process of contextualizing fashionable management ideas: some previous experiences -- 12. A stakeholder approach to advising on the relevance of management ideas and panaceas -- 13. Conveying the adaptation of management panaceas: the case of management gurus -- 14. Neutralizing managerial panaceas: how universities cope with management fads -- 15. The creativity of organizations in taking corporate social responsibility: handling conflicting institutional demands -- 16. Excellence and intelligence: managing practice adaptation in organizations and fields -- 17. When a managerial panacea was translated rationally: the case of corporatization in the Swedish state-owned mail enterprise -- 18. Artistic interventions in organizations: beyond the fad -- 19. Good reading makes good action: nothing so practical as a managerial panacea? -- 20. Struggling panaceas by management gurus: a critical approach -- 21. Empowering students to translate management panaceas -- Part IV. Comments and reflections -- 22. Management reforms as fashion? Critical remarks from a philosophy of science perspective -- 23. Theory as fashion: what are management ideas for? -- 24. Managerial panaceas, sensemaking and identity construction in contemporary organizations -- 25. Global wisdom: not a panacea, but absolutely necessary for transcending managerial failures -- 26. Towards a normative theory of contextualizing management ideas and panaceas.