Management History

This book charts the evolution of management as an intellectual discipline, from ancient times to the present day. Contemporary management challenges, including sustainability, technology and data, and legitmacy are analysed through an historical lens and with the benefit of new case studies. Essent..

Cotton Enterprises: Networks and Strategies makes important contributions to the study and research of the financing of early cotton mills, technology transfer in these entrepreneurial ventures, the organization of production, including a detailed discussion of the available technology, networks and..

Pierre Wack was head of scenario planning at Royal Dutch / Shell Oil in London for over ten years. He was a pioneer of what we know today as scenario planning. This new volume will cover his life timeline and attach it to the development of his thinking about scenario planning over the course of his..

_x005F_x000D_ Making Managers in Canada, 1945 – 1995 seeks to shed light on the experience of workers who have not received much attention in business history: managers. This book will approach management training from both institutional and social history perspectives. It will integrate institution..

Management Ideas is a unique guide to the dominant theories influencing management practice in the late 20th century. Kermally explains how some organizations have taken these ideas on board and incorporated them in their strategies in order to survive in today's intensively competitive climate. Man..

A guide to the dominant theories influencing management practice in the late 20th century. It explains how some organizations have taken these ideas on board and incorporated them in their strategies in order to survive in intensively competitive climate. It looks at: Total quality management; Bench..

John Bolton led the founding of the Foundation for Management Education and chaired the 1968-71 Committee of Inquiry on Small Firms. This book illuminates the institutions in which Bolton worked as well as painting a picture of his own role...

What isn’t management and why doesn’t it matter? This compelling book leads the reader away from the stories told by managers and management theories to show the secret history of the field. In characterizing the progress of management as a war on workers, the author offers a controversial and revea..

This extensive volume is dedicated to providing the ultimate starting-off point for those interested in learning more about management's intellectual history and will be a useful reference guide for those researching this vital discipline...