The Making of Modern Management: British Management in Historical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780199573998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str.

John F. Wilson; Andrew Thomson

Opis

Management has always been part of human organization, but it is only in the last two centuries or so that it has been the central driver of economic activity, as companies have moved from family firms to hugely complex, multinational corporations with many layers of management.

Recenzje

Review from previous edition ...by delving into a vast array of published sources, not all of which are readily available to scholars, the authors can rest assured that they have produced a pioneering study, which resonates with the current frontier of knowledge and identifies the parameters for future research.

O autorze

John F. Wilson is Professor of International Business, University of Central Lancashire. He is author of British Business History, 1720-1994 (Manchester University Press, 1995) and Ferranti. A History, Vol. I, Building a Family Firm, 1882-1975 (Carnegie Publishing, 2000). Andrew W. Thomson was formerly Dean of the Open University Business School. He is author of Changing Patterns of Management Development (with C.Mabey, J.Storey, C. Gray and P. Iles, Blackwell, 2001), A Portrait of Pay, 1970-1982: An Analysis of the New Earnings Survey (edited with M. Gregory, Clarendon Press, 1990).