A critique of anti-management theories' dominance

Abstract

Proliferation of management theories is present and novel theories are very critically approaching organizational rationality and managerial benevolence. Population-ecology theory, institutional theory, resource dependency theory and organizational economics theory are explicitly and/or implicitly denying the structural-contingency paradigm which is defined as pro-managerial theory. This paper proves that structuralcontingency paradigm has the highest validity in theoretical assumptions and empirical confirmations while antimanagement theories have a whole range of theoretical and empirical inconsistencies and/or restrictions.