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020 _a9781107138148 (hardback)
020 _a9781316502907 (paperback)
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100 1 _aCummings, Stephen,
_eauthor.
245 1 2 _aA new history of management /
_cStephen Cummings, Todd Bridgman, John Hassard, and Michael Rowlinson.
260 _aCambridge, United Kingdom ;
_aNew York, NY :
_bCambridge University Press,
_cc2017
263 _a1707
300 _axv, 380 pages :
_billustrations, map ;
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: 1. Rethinking the map of management history; 2. Management's formation: the importance of the liberal context; 3. To what end? The nature of management's classical approach; 4. The birth of organization science: or what we could learn from Max Weber; 5. The institution of the business school; 6. The discovery of the human worker; 7. Textbook distortions: how management textbooks process history and limit future thinking; 8. The invention of corporate culture; 9. Remaking management history: new foundations for the future.
520 _a"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 management's past. A New History of Management disputes these foundations. By reassessing conventional perspectives on past management theories and providing a new critical outline of present-day management, it highlights alternative conceptions of 'good management' focused on ethical aims, sustainability, and alternative views of good practice. From this new historical perspective, existing assumptions can be countered and simplistic views disputed, offering a platform from which graduate students, researchers and reflective practitioners can develop alternative approaches for managing and organizing in the twenty-first century"--
520 _a"Economics, law, philosophy and many others fell short of our comparable academic history journal criterion for selecting comparators. However, the history of medicine and the history of architecture did meet our needs. Like management and business, these are stochastic fields where, while we may be guided by theories or principles, we must adjust our thinking and re-calibrate our actions as our subjects or cases or stakeholders respond in individual ways to previous interventions in changing environments. Our initial investigations also revealed that there seemed to be no recent laments in these fields about the lack of new ideas. Consequently, we sought to analyse and contrast what their histories recorded with management and business history"--
650 0 _aManagement
_xHistory.
650 0 _aOrganizational behavior.
650 7 _aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior.
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700 1 _aBridgman, Todd,
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