Creating new knowledge in management: appropriating the field's lost foundations
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Main Author: O'Connor, Ellen S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. Stanford Business Books, an Imprint of Stanford University Press c2012
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction and problem : no institution of management knowledge -- The institutionalizing research university : rise of the scientific tradition -- The 19th-century business school : fall of the classical and rise of the vocational and school-of-opportunity traditions -- The 20th-century business school : integrating the vocational and scientific traditions -- Mary Parker Follett's unbounded relationality -- Chester Barnard's science of responsible experience -- Revisiting Barnard and Simon's private argument -- Integrating research and responsibility : collaborating with an executive -- Integrating education, research, and responsibility : experimenting with master's-level teaching -- Conclusion and solution : integrating the knowledge traditions and building a discipline of management
This book rediscovers lost sources in the work of Mary Parker Follett and Chester Barnard, providing a foundation for management as a unique and coherent discipline. By way of Follett and Barnard's work, the book demonstrates how the shared values, purposes, and customs of management and the humanities can be used to build an enterprise that will help to meet the challenges of business today
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 244 p.)
ISBN:9780804778374
080477837X
0804770751

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