“…At this point, we turn to the debate about 'paradigms' in natural science, associated with scholars of the history of science, such as Thomas Kuhn (see Fuller, 2000), in his seminal work half-a-century ago, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn, 1962), a number of economists (Coats, 1969;Blaug, 1975;Stiglitz, 2011) amongst others) and a few sociologists (see Hassard and Cox, 2013). We will ask why Scientific Management eventually became a possibly dominant management model of its time for many decades, with wide influence around the globe (Devinat, 1927;Merkle, 1980;Greenwood and Ross, 1982;Locke, 1982;Humphreys, 1986;Kanigel, 1987;Wrege and Greenwood, 1992;Warner, 1994;Nelson, 1995;Morgan, 2006) and even in fields beyond management (for example, Guillén, 2006).…”