Handbook of Research on Management and Organizational History

Edited by Kyle Bruce, formerly Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University, Australia

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Handbook of Research on Management and Organizational History: the hotly contested present state of management and organizational history 1
Kyle Bruce

PART I CLASSIC FOUNDATIONS
2 Thinking differently about Adam Smith’s legacy for management studies 11
Stephen Cummings and Todd Bridgman
3 The uses of Frederick Winslow Taylor: how management theorists have interpreted scientific management over the years and why 39
Hindy Lauer Schachter
4 Contested paths: a meta-analytic review of the Hawthorne studies’ literature 56
Jeff Muldoon and Yaron Zoller
5 Making the Res Publica: the political basis of management in the US – the works of Joseph Wharton, Mary Parker Follett, and Chester Barnard 80
Ellen S. O’Connor
6 Seebohm Rowntree and the British interwar management movement 101
Mairi Maclean, Gareth Shaw, Alan Booth, Rachel Pistol and Morgen Witzel

PART II ALTERNATIVE VOICES
7 From West Point to points west: the French absolutist roots of the American industrial corporation 123
Richard Marens
8 Towards a Zen-informed approach to management and organizational history 146
Tianyuan Yu, Albert J. Mills and Jean Helms Mills
9 Sport and project management: a window into the development of temporary organizations 169
Alex G. Gillett and Kevin D. Tennent
10 Decolonialism and management (geo)history: is the past also a place? 192
Amon Barros and Sérgio Wanderley
11 The commercial practices of the crown and the state: locating British trade with, and ‘commercial imperialism’ in, Africa, in the geopolitics of Europe 212
Nelarine Cornelius and Eric Pezet

PART III ABOUT HISTORY
12 Feminist critical historiography: undoing history – a conceptual model 242
Kristin S. Williams
13 Unpacking organizational re-membering 256
William M. Foster, Diego Coraiola, Chris Quinn-Trank and François Bastien
14 Contextualizing the historian: an ANTi-History perspective 275
Gabrielle Durepos, Albert J. Mills and Patricia Genoe McLaren

Index 293