Cold War political culture and the return of systems rationality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9888398 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ori Landau (Tel Aviv University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 637-663 |
| Publication date | 2006-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0018726706066553 |
| OpenAlex | W2162528468 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 39 |
This study places systems rationalism - the most important phase in managerial systems discourse’s dissemination - within the context of Cold War’s incipience in the United States. Quantitative and qualitative analyses are offered based on primary data collected systematically from the Harvard Business Review and Advanced Management, supplemented by additional macro-data and secondary historiographic sources. The study’s findings indicate that systems rationalism was shaped by a formative event, short but intensive, combining two processes: the eruption of the Cold War political culture and concurrent managerial struggles over hegemony. Managerial discourse appropriated Cold War ideological concepts and national myths and translated them into rational-instrumental terms. The resultant discursive formation hybridizing particularistic-ethnocentrism and universal-rationalism became the birthplace of systems rationalism. Systems rationalism’s possible contributions to the enhancement of managerial power are discussed, as well as implications for the understanding of present managerial discourse
Context (archaeology · Economics · Epistemology · Ethnocentrism · Hegemony · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Postponement · Rationalism · Rationality · Sociology · Accounting and Organizational Management · Anthropology · History · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Management Theory and Practice · Philosophy
The right to manage
Science in action
Organizations
Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis
Labor and monopoly capital
Models of management
Exporting the American Model
Modern Manors
Translating Organizational Change
The Emperor Has No Clothes
What Do Bosses Do?
Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
Discourse and social change
The Visible Hand
Business and religion
Labor and Monopoly Capital
Writing the Left out of Management Theory
The culture of the Cold War
Organizational Change and Representations of Women in a North American Utility Company
Taylorism Transformed
The Uneasy Partnership
Workers in industrial America
Taylorism Transformed
| Citations per year | 0.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2013 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |