Introduction : the process of developing management theory /; Michael A. Hitt and Ken G. Smith --; The evolution of social cognitive theory /; Albert Bandura --; Image theory /; Lee R. Beach and Terence R. Mitchell --; The road to fairness and beyond /; Robert Folger --; Grand theories and mid-range theories : cultural effects on theorizing and the attempt to understand active approaches to work /; Michael Frese --; Upper echelons theory : origins, twists, and turns, and lessons learned --; Goal setting theory : theory building by induction /; Edwin A. Locke and Gary P. Latham --; How job characteristics theory happened /; Greg R. Oldham and J. Richard Hackman --; Do employee attitudes towards organizations matter? : the study of employee commitment to organizations /; Lyman W. Porter, Richard M. Steers and Richard T. Mowday --; Developing psychological contract theory /; Denise M. Rousseau --; The escalation of commitment : steps toward an organizational theory /; Barry M. Staw --; On the origins of expectancy theory /; Victor H. Vroom --; Double-loop learning in organizations : a theory of action perspective /; Christ Argyris --; Where does inequality come from? : the personal and intellectual roots of resource-based theory /; Jay B. Barney --; Organizational effectiveness : its demise and re-emergence through positive organizational scholarship /; Kim Cameron --; Managerial and organizational cognition : islands of coherence /; Anne S. Huff --; Developing theory about the development of theory /; Henry Mintzberg --; Managing organizational knowledge : theoretical and methodological foundations /; Ikujiro Nonaka --; The experience of theorizing : sensemaking as topic and resource /; Karl E. Weick --; The development of stakeholder theory : an idiosyncratic approach /; R. Edward Freeman --; Developing resource dependence theory : how theory is affected by its environment /; Jeffrey Pfeffer --; Institutional theory : contributing to a theoretical research program /; W. Richard Scott --; Transaction cost economics : the process of theory development /; Oliver E. Williamson --; Developing evolutionary theory for economics and management /; Sidney G. Winter --; An evolutionary approach to institutions and social construction : process and structure /; Lynn G. Zucker and Michael R. Darby --; Epilogue : learning to develop theory from the masters /; Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt