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题名/责任者:

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.

出版发行项:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, c2017.

ISBN:

9781316502907

ISBN:

9781107138148

ISBN:

1107138140

ISBN:

1316502902

载体形态项:

xv, 380 pages ; 24 cm

个人责任者:

Cummings, Stephen, author.

附加个人名称:

Bridgman, Todd, author.

论题主题:

Management-History.

论题主题:

Organizational behavior.

中图法分类号:

C936-09

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

内容附注:

Machine 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.

摘要附注:

"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"--

摘要附注:

"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"--

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