The Politics of the Behavioural Revolution in Organization Studies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20501093
AutoresMark Tadajewski (0000-0003-0879-272X, University of Leicester, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen16
Número5
Páginas733-754
Fecha de publicación2009-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOrganization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1350-5084 • E-ISSN: 1461-7323
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1350508409338882
OpenAlexW2015613416
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas45

This article addresses the behavioural revolution in organization studies of the 1950s. It tries to unravel, via Foucaultian ‘eventalization’, the conditions that made the ‘behavioural sciences’ emerge at that historical juncture. I argue that the relationship of the Ford Foundation with the Graduate School of Industrial Administration and concomitantly with Herbert Simon, James March and others, was firmly embedded in the Cold War politics of the time. These relationships mirrored governmental, public policy, education and foundation concerns with socialism, as well as communist infiltration in the universities at a formative period in the development of organization and management studies, contributing to functionalism and positivism being institutionalized in these disciplines

Aesthetics · Communism · Formative assessment · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Social science · Sociology · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Management Theory and Practice · Philosophy · Public Administration · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments