Handbook of research on management and organizational history

"Emerging from what was a somewhat staid sub-discipline, there is currently a battle for the soul of management and organizational history (MOH), at the centre of which is a widespread concern that much recent work has been more about how one should or might do history rather than actually doin...

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Other Authors: Bruce, Kyle (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Northampton Edward Elgar Publishing 2020, 2020
Series:Research handbooks in business and management
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Collection: Edward Elgar eBooks Collection Business & Economics - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • 1. Introduction to the handbook of research on management and organizational history: The hotly contested present state of management and organizational history / Kyle Bruce
  • Part I: Classic foundations
  • 2. Thinking differently about adam smith's legacy for management studies / Stephen Cummings and Todd Bridgman
  • 3. The uses of frederick winslow taylor: How management theorists have interpreted scientific management over the years and why / Hindy Lauer Schachter
  • 4. Contested paths: A meta-analytic review of the hawthorne studies' literature / Jeff Muldoon and Yaron Zoller
  • 5. Making the res publica: The political basis of management in the us - the works of joseph wharton, mary parker follett, and chester barnard / Ellen S. O'Connor
  • 6. Seebohm rowntree and the British interwar management movement / Mairi Maclean, Gareth Shaw, Alan Booth, Rachel Pistol and Morgen Witzel
  • Part II: Alternative voices
  • An anti-history perspective / Gabrielle Durepos, Albert J. Mills and Patricia Genoe McLaren
  • Index
  • The French absolutist roots of the American industrial corporation / Richard Marens
  • 8. Towards a zen-informed approach to management and organizational history / Tianyuan Yu, Albert J. Mills and Jean Helms Mills
  • 9. Sport and project management: A window into the development of temporary organizations / Alex G. Gillett and Kevin D. Tennent
  • 10. Decolonialism and management (geo)history: Is the past also a place? / Amon Barros and Sérgio Wanderley
  • 11. The commercial practices of the crown and the state: Locating British trade with, and 'commercial imperialism' in, Africa, in the geopolitics of Europe / Nelarine Cornelius and Eric Pezet
  • Part III: About history
  • 12. Feminist critical historiography: Undoing history - a conceptual model / Kristin S. Williams
  • 13. Unpacking organizational re-membering / William M. Foster, Diego Coraiola, Chris Quinn-Trank and François Bastien