existed in the thinking of these two individuals who greatly influenced management thinking during the twentieth century.  …

they relate to prescriptive and descriptive approaches to the study of management.  …

social movement gained momentum and influence and eventually contributed to today’s prevailing management orthodoxy. We …

In the past 100 years production management has evolved from a set of heuristic ideas to a portfolio of somewhat … developed concepts and principles. “Just‐in‐time” and “total quality management” integrate most of the modern concepts and … Tavistock studies, have given significant contribution to the evolution of management theory. This paper presents the context of …

Among modern scholars and students there is an increasing distance between the fundamental thoughts of early management … occurred. We examine examples of how others have furthered our understanding of management history by the discovery and …

´lite may have implications for the ongoing reading of Barnard’s work by the management students of today.  …

This article questions the widely held proposition that the management philosophy of W. Edwards Deming, with its focus … on quality improvement and pragmatic thinking, is a new conceptual paradigm which renders previous management thought …, particularly that represented by the scientific management concepts of Frederick W. Taylor, obsolete and wrong‐headed. A closer …

management: positioning; resource‐based view; top‐down or bottom‐up; deliberate or emergent; and rational or generative. The …