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Management History - Its Global Past & Present (Paperback)
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Management History - Its Global Past & Present (Paperback)
Series: Management History: Global Perspectives
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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. In Australia,
governments long sought to isolate the national economy from global
trends so as to boost manufacturing and local employment.
Ultimately, however, this proved unsuccessful as Australian
production became increasingly uncompetitive. A severe process of
economic readjustment, with often adverse social effects, is also
found in the book's chapter on the United States, which highlights
the major changes that have occurred since the 1960s. This book
also considers how managerial organizations have been forced to
adapt and the intellectual debates that have accompanied this.
Finally, in Regina Greenwood's chapter, we have an account of the
Management History Division of the Academy of Management, an
organization which has provided the fulcrum for the generation and
dissemination of management history for the last 3 decades.
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