"Over the past four decades, China has evolved from being largely isolated and irrelevant to the world economy to having the world's second-largest economy, and it is widely expected to have the largest economy in the near future. In the process, China went from having a largely agricultural...

Scientific management is the label Frederick Taylor attached to the system of management devised by him. In this article we present our discovery of very different scientific management principles that were developed roughly concurrently with Taylorism by German physicist Ernst Abbe, then owner...