Management Ideas : a Short History of Business Administration

Part I: Before the Institutionalization of Business Administration as a Science -- 1. Early Devices and Techniques in Western Asia and the Near East -- 2. Management of Homes, Estates and Trade in Europe until the Middle Ages -- 3. The age of Enlightenment and beyond in Europe -- 4. Three Streams of Economic Knowledge Generation in 19th Century Europe -- Part II: Criteria for Business Administration as a Science -- 5. Indicators of a Science and Models of its Development -- 6. Scientific Progress in General and in Business Administration -- 7. Emerging Scientific Infrastructure for Business Administration -- Part III: The Institutionalized Science -- 8. In Search of an Objective Function and a Name -- 9. Decline under Political Influences and two New Beginnings – the Cases of Germany -- 10. Sketches on Developing Specializations -- Part IV: Limitations, further Needs and Lessons Learned -- 11. Limitations and further Needs -- 12. Lessons Learned: Reasons for Histories of Management Ideas.