A Taxonomy of Global Management Theories

Grace S. Thomson, Nevada State College

Abstract

This document presents a taxonomy of 14 management theories and models that incorporate grounded theory or theoretical frameworks addressing different aspects of leadership, organizational design, managerial roles, global business, change and innovation, e-commerce and e-business. More than 40 references accompany this work combining original treaties, empirical work and media reports. All the references were extracted from scholarly databases provided by UOP online Library.

The taxonomy is organized in four categories: Foundational, traditional, current and emerging global and emerging e-commerce theories. Each table includes a description of the theory, current examples of practitioner or empirical application and other significant attributes.