The Palgrave Handbook of Management History

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 member for Journal of Labour History and Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration. 

1. Introduction to Management History: debates and methodology.- 2. Work, Organization and Commerce in the Pre-Modern World.- 3. The Foundations of Modern Management.- 4. The Classic Age of Management Thought (mid-19th century until 1939).- 5. Management in the Age of Prosperity (1940s – 1980).- 6. Management in an Age of Crisis (1980s-).- 7. Management in Eastern Europe.- 8. Management in the Asia Pacific.- 9. Management in the Middle East and the Indian Ocean littoral.- 10. Management in the South Atlantic littoral.- 11. Postmodernism in Management.