The Rise and Fall of Management: A Brief History of Practice, Theory and Context

ISBN-13: 9781409448297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 298 str.

Pearson, Gordon

Opis

This work describes how and why managers have struggled to achieve a tolerable balance of dissatisfaction among the various stakeholders with whom they interact. It clarifies through historical review the difficult issues around management with which we struggle today.

Recenzje

'Gordon Pearson's new book fills an important gap. In the course of a careful and absorbing institutional history, he demolishes some of management's pervasive and damaging myths - such as the primacy of shareholder value - and restates its enduring verities. To reshape management for the future, we need to know how it developed and why. This is the place to start.' Simon Caulkin (Management Editor, The Observer) 'This book offers something that so many management texts fail to deliver - readability. With a succinct and easy to follow style, the author has produced a work, which is genuinely interesting to read. If you want to discover how management has developed over time, against a background of well-explained economic theory, this text is a must. Similarly, if you struggle to remember the key concepts upon which economic theory is built, and their relevance to business practice, this is a book well worth reading...an excellent mix of history and management practice...I particularly liked the epilogue introduced as a broad account of past progress and mistakes. But building on this, the author introduces realistic suggestions for future approaches that managers could adopt.' - Mike Turner FInstAM in e.Manager, The British Journal of Administrative Management 'This is an extremely insightful and challenging contribution to our understanding of management theory and practice. It offers a powerful and significant critique of the evolution of organizational life - one that is particularly suited to the times. Gordon Pearson’s book will make a major impact on the field and is simply a must for any management researcher’s bookshelf.' - John Hassard, Professor of Organizational Analysis, Manchester Business School Pearson has written an illuminating and readable account of the practice, theory and context of management: a lively and provocative book that will make the reader question and rethink the ethos and morality of free market capitalism

Spis treści

Contents: Prologue; Part 1 The Emergence of Management: Creating the first economic surplus; An economic theory of industry and commerce; Industrialization and management responsibilities; The developing economic and political context. Part 2 The Rise of Professional Management: New world, big business and educating management; Division of management labour; Theories of management; Management in practice. Part 3 The Educated Fall of Management: Seduction by the new strategic management; Friedman and business-friendly government; Business schools versus management education. Part 4 Management for New Responsibilities: The emerging perspective. Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

With a first degree in management sciences from Warwick University, Gordon Pearson has carved out a distinctive position focusing on the good and bad impacts of economic and behavioural theory on the practical realities of business management. His industrial line responsibilities have included most management functions as well as general and strategic management. His specialist experience in mergers and acquisitions, were the basis of his first book, 'The Strategic Discount', a critique of accounting's short termism. He subsequently completed a Ph.D. in strategy, innovation and culture at Manchester Business School. His academic inputs, which have included heading up the Department of Management and the MBA programmes at Keele University, are mainly focused on a critical analysis of theory's impacts on practice. His related challenging blog site is at www.gordonpearson.co.uk.