Management fads, pedagogies, and other soft technologies

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 290-304

  Bendor, Jonathan ^a   Huberman, Bernardo A ^b   Wu, Fang ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Fads; Pedagogies; Polya urn; Soft technologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349453916     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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