HCBE Faculty Books and Book Chapters
Book Title
Management history: Its global past & present
ORCID ID
Regina A. Greenwood0000-0002-5577-499X
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
9781681231853
Publication Date
2015
Editors
Bowden, B., Lamond, D.
Description
This book has two broad purposes. First, it seeks to determine whether or not there is a “universal” management model through an examination of circumstance in a number of different nations and industries. Second, it brings to a wider audience some of the leading research in the field of management history. In doing so, it highlights the importance of the Management History Division of the Academy of Management in fostering and disseminating new understandings of management and its development. The book indicates that, while there has been much variance in managerial practices across time and space, we can nevertheless speak of a “universal” managerial model. Emerging in association with Britain's Industrial Revolution, the spread of competitive pressures progressively demanded that enterprises respond in broadly common ways if they were to survive. These broad commonalities can be seen in the diverse industries that this book considers – the beef industry of the Northern Plains of the United States in the nineteenth century, the trading activities of the Dutch East India Company, the United States and Australian railroads, and the manufacturing methods of the Ford Motor Company during the early twentieth century. In each of these circumstances, industries and firms had to constantly adapt to changes in both capital and consumer markets. This is evident even in the case of the Ford Motor Company which, as James Wilson's chapter indicates, was in its early days “flexible” rather than Fordist, constantly adjusting production and inventories in accordance with consumer demand. Such responses to global markets is also found in the realms of ideas and education, where the book's study of trends in business education highlights the growing dominance of commercial factors and of intellectual concepts stemming from the United States. The power of management commonalities is also found in the book's study of Australia and the United States.
Publisher
Information Age Publishing, Inc.
City
Charlotte, NC
Disciplines
Business
NSUWorks Citation
Greenwood, Regina A., "A first look at the first 30 years of the First Division: The management history division" (2015). HCBE Faculty Books and Book Chapters. 40.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcbe_facbooks/40
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