Management, Managerial Revolution, Taylorism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23564358 |
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| Authors | Kenneth Smith (0000-0003-4438-6470, Buckinghamshire New University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-5 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118430873.est0227 |
| OpenAlex | W3216571272 |
| ISBN | 9781118430873 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The term “managerialism” is today commonly associated with the work of James Burnham (1905–1987) and in particular with his 1941 book, The Managerial Revolution . However, the lineage of this idea goes back much further than this and probably dates from the time and motion studies of Frederick Taylor (1856–1915). Important here too is the very influential book, The Modern Corporation and Private Property (1932), by Adolf Berle and Gardiner Mean as well as the work of Elton Mayo (1880–1949) the founder of “human resources,” while, more recently, much of this agenda has been taken over by a new, but not dissimilar, emphasis on the “employability” of graduates.
Corporation · Economic history · Economics · Employability · Industrial Revolution · Management · Managerialism · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics) · Economic Theory and Institutions · Engineering · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Management Theory and Practice
| Highly cited | No |
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