Ritson, Philip A.; Parker, Lee D. - In: Journal of Management History 22 (2016) 3, pp. 320-340
Purpose This paper aims to examine the employment of the military metaphor by the management thinker and writer Lyndall … Urwick who in the twentieth century developed and articulated his ideas over a 60-year period, arguably the longest … continuous period of any management writer of his day. Design/methodology/approach This study draws on published research into …