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The Palgrave Handbook of Management History

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Editors:
  1. Bradley Bowden

    1. Griffith University, Nathan, Australia

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  2. Jeffrey Muldoon

    1. Emporia State University, Emporia, USA

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  3. Anthony Gould

    1. Faculté des Sciences Sociales, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

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  4. Adela McMurray

    1. College of Business, RMIT University, School of Management, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Offers the most comprehensive exploration of management history in the market
  • Spans management history thought and traditions, historiography and the development of the discipline
  • Maps the discipline both temporally and geographically
  • Offers a truly international perspective
  • Engages with both pre-modern ideas of work and organisation, and post-industrial concepts of management history and thought
  • Critically engages with lively and current debates within the field

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This Handbook is the definitive source and reference tool for academics, researchers and graduate students working in the field of Management History. Consisting of eleven sections, they will collectively cover management history’s past and present and provide an unparalleled overview of both managerial practice and thought. As a discipline, management history has relatively recently splintered from business history, focusing on the study of organizations and the ways in which work is structured and managed. Initially employing a heavily western perspective and influenced mainly by British and American historians, the discipline has expanded the focus of its studies both temporally and geographically to incorporate pre-19th century forms of organization and extend its scope beyond Western Europe and North America. This important project will be a high level, systematic and comprehensive tool thanks to the range of contributions from leading experts and academics. It isintended to be the first port of call for all research endeavors in the field of management history. 

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Table of contents (63 entries)

  1. A Return to the Good Old Days: Populism, Fake News, Yellow Journalism, and the Unparalleled Virtue of Business People

    • Mark Balnaves

  2. Africa and the Firm: Management in Africa Through a Century of Contestation

    • Grietjie Verhoef

  3. British Management 1950–1980

    • John Quail

  4. Certain Victory, Uncertain Time: The Limitations of Nineteenth-Century Management Thought

    • Jeffrey Muldoon

  5. Chandler and the Visible Hand of Management

    • Kevin D. Tennent

  6. Changing Corporate Governance in France in the Late Twentieth Century

    • Peter Wirtz

  7. Conclusion: Management Theory in Crisis

    • Jean-Etienne Joullié

  8. Conflicting Understandings of the Industrial Revolution and Its Consequences: The Founding Figures of British Management History

    • Bradley Bowden

  9. Conflicting Visions: A Recap About the Debates Within Management History

    • Jeffrey Muldoon

  10. Debates Within Management History

    • Jeffrey Muldoon

  11. Different Experiences: Europe, Africa, and the Middle East: An Introduction

    • Bradley Bowden

  12. Economic Foundations: Adam Smith and the Classical School of Economics

    • Bradley Bowden

  13. Flexicurity: The Danish Model

    • Jørgen Burchardt

  14. Foundations: The Roots of Idealist and Romantic Opposition to Capitalism and Management

    • Bradley Bowden

  15. From Feudalism to Modernity, Part 2: The Revolution in Ideas, AD 450 to 1750

    • Bradley Bowden

  16. From Feudalism to Modernity, Part I: Management, Technology, and Work, AD 450–1750

    • Bradley Bowden

  17. Governmentality and the Chinese Workers in China’s Contemporary Thought Management System

    • Elly Leung

  18. Hayden White and His Influence

    • Bradley Bowden

  19. Henry Ford and His Legacy: An American Prometheus

    • Jeffrey Muldoon

  20. In Search of the Traces of the History of Management in Latin America, 1870–2020

    • Carlos Dávila
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Griffith University, Nathan, Australia

    Bradley Bowden

  • Emporia State University, Emporia, USA

    Jeffrey Muldoon

  • Faculté des Sciences Sociales, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

    Anthony Gould

  • College of Business, RMIT University, School of Management, Melbourne, Australia

    Adela McMurray

About the editors

Bradley Bowden is Professor of Labour and Management History based in the Business School of Griffith University, Australia. Also the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Management History (A-rated by ACBD) since 2015 and Chair of the Management History Division at the Academy of Management, his experience in this subject area is vast and he is regarded as a senior figure in the discipline. He is a prolific writer having published 7 books including Management History: Its Global Past & Present (Information Age Publishing, 2015), contributed to 22 edited collections and published over 50 refereed articles. He has served as the keynote speaker for five international events on Labour and Management History since 2007 and has been awarded the John F Mee Award for the most outstanding contribution to AOM in Management History twice (2009 and 2012). Alongside his duties as Editor-in-chief of Journal of Management History he also acts as an editorial board memberfor Journal of Labour History and Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Management History

  • Editors: Bradley Bowden, Jeffrey Muldoon, Anthony Gould, Adela McMurray

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62348-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Living Reference Business and Management, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62348-1

  • Topics: Management, Organization, Economic History, Labor History

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