Myths, Narratives and the Dilemma of Managerial Support

The importance of managerial support has been established for modern busine- related sciences at least as early as 1922. It was then in the ?rst issue of Harvard Business Review, that Wallace B. Donham called for a proper theory of business to avoid business to continue to be “unsystematic, haphazard, and for many men a pathetic gamble.” The past century witnessed signi?cant development in terms o...