Genoe McLaren, Patricia; Mills, Albert J. - In: Journal of Management History 14 (2008) 4, pp. 386-403
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the idea that the ideal manager is a social construct that is a product of the context within which it exists. The context chosen to illustrate this idea is that of the first two decades of the Cold War (1945‐1965) in the USA....