Issues of management identity

Attitudes to management within the Australian Institute of Management, 1940–73

Bibliographic Data

ID8419237
AuthorsDenis Jon Nettle (Victoria University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume56
Issue2
Pages287-313
Publication date2014-02-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBusiness History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-6791 • E-ISSN: 1743-7938
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00076791.2013.771341
OpenAlexW2010107769
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited27

While a number of studies have considered the evolution of Australian business and management, less attention has been paid to the discourse used by Australian managers to conceptualise their identity as managers. This study of management discourse within the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) from 1940 up to 1973 does not, however, reveal a progressive evolution towards a hegemonic conception of management. Rather the discourse of practising managers within the AIM reveals a continual unresolved wrestling with rival conceptions of possible managerial identities as administrators, leaders, professionals and even workers, and how the AIM was continually frustrated in articulating its own institutional identity as a ‘society of managers’

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