C. Bertrand Thompson: A Remarkable Man

Event Location / Date(s)

Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management/Orlando, FL

Event Name / Location

Academy of Management Proceedings

Presentation Date

1-1-2013

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Presenter(s) / Author(s)

Daniel A. Wren, University of Oklahoma
Julia Teahen, Baker College
Regina A. Greenwood, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Arthur G. Bedeian, Louisiana State University

ORCID ID

Regina A. Greenwood0000-0002-5577-499X

ISSN

0065-0668

Description

If management scholars are familiar with the name C. B. Thompson (1882-1969), it is either to identify him as a Scientific Management bibliographer (Greenwood & Greenwood, 1976) or to recall that he was a disciple of Frederick W. Taylor (Greenwood, 1984). Both are accurate statements but fail to convey the complexities and contributions of his life and work. By drawing together information about C.B. Thompson from disparate sources, we developed a portrait of a unique man of significant accomplishment whose work deserves to be more widely known and more deeply appreciated. Learning more about C. B. Thompson would, perhaps, lead others to agree with the remarks of Paul Planus (1964:40), who, after working with Thompson in France, described him as, “the most remarkable man that I ever met.”

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2013.14940abstract

Comments

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NSUWorks Citation

Wren, Daniel A.; Teahen, Julia; Greenwood, Regina A.; and Bedeian, Arthur G., "C. Bertrand Thompson: A Remarkable Man" (2013). HCBE Faculty Presentations. 139.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcbe_facpres/139