A new history of management / Stephen Cummings, Victoria University of Wellington, Todd Bridgman, Victoria University of Wellington, John Hassard, University of Manchester, Michael Rowlinson, University of Exeter.
"Existing narratives about how we should organize are built upon, and reinforce, a concept of 'good management' derived from what is assumed to be a fundamental need to increase efficiency. But this assumption is based on a presentist, monocultural, and generally limited view of manag...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Rethinking the map of management history
- Management's formation: the importance of the liberal context
- To what end? The nature of management's classical approach
- The birth of organization science: or what we could learn from Max Weber
- The institution of the business school
- The discovery of the human worker
- Textbook distortions: how management textbooks process history and limit future thinking
- The invention of corporate culture
- Remaking management history: new foundations for the future.