Why is it That Management Seems to Have No History?

Bray, A. J.

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“…the porter brewers of London (Mathias, 1959), the mining and textile industries (Pollard, 1965) with the latter`M anchester factory based capitalism'' providing the basis of early US capitalism initially deployed in the US textile mills at Lowell, Massachusetts. Similarly evidence of management in the great offices of the Tudor state and in the administration of the estates of the property owning elite have been identified as being operated by``secretaries'' (Bray, 2001), but these were technical bureaucracies similar to those of the Roman Empire. As Weber noted the modern state is absolutely dependent upon a bureaucratic basis (Gerth and Mills, 1967), but both the private and public sector entities were less complex in their structure and composition than the railroads.…”

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“…It is now readily accepted that management is ubiquitous but the intellectual derivation and heritage of management practice, and how it became a recognised profession remains mostly unknown by the modern manager. Several commentators have observed that the historic origins of management theories, practices and its history are mostly unknown (Thomson, 2001;Bray, 2001), and remain a mystery (Whiting, 1964). This is because contemporary business education implicitly categorises management as a modern economic invention.…”

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Management organisational history – a military lesson?

Talbot

2003

Journal of European Industrial Training

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Offers an alternative explanation for the development and creation of industrial and post‐industrial organisational forms derived from military models. Organisation as history suggests that the military model was the only available and proven structure capable of coping with the industrial age. Suggests flexible military structures presaged contemporary flexible management and organisational structures. Management and organisational semantics betray martial origins. The past shapes the present and influences the future – professional managers need to understand their professional heritage.

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Section: Learning From the Pastmentioning

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Management organisational history – a military lesson?

Talbot

2003

Journal of European Industrial Training

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“…1 For instance, in the first volume of the Philosophy of Management journal, Alan Bray raised the provocative question "Why is it that management seems to have no history? ", indicating that the practice of management as a corpus of knowledge and skills received only little attention in the literature (Bray 2001). With this, we do not mean that philosophers are not consulted to reflect on issues in management.…”

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What Is (Business) Management? Laying the Ground for a Philosophy of Management

Blok

2019

Philosophy of Management

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In this article, we philosophically reflect on the nature of business management. We move beyond the political paradigm of the conceptualization of management in order to lay the ground for a philosophy of business management. First, we open-up the self-evident conceptualization of business management in contemporary management practices by comparing ancient and contemporary definitions of management. Second, we develop a framework with six dimensions of the nature of business management that can guide future philosophical and empirical work on the nature of business management: management control, people management, asset management and entrepreneurial action, management as participation, management as responsive action and management as constituting meaning.

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“…For instance, in the first volume of the Philosophy of management journal, Alan Bray raised the provocative question "Why is it that management seems to have no history?" indicating that the practice of management as a corpus of knowledge and skills received only little attention in the literature (Bray 2001).…”

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Xenophon’s Philosophy of Management

Blok

2022

Handbooks in Philosophy

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In this chapter, we explore Xenophon's philosophy of management and identify nine dimensions of business management, as well as the competencies (the knowledge, skills, and virtues) that good management requires. The scientific contribution of this chapter does not only consist in the fact that this is the first publications in which Xenophon's philosophy of management is systematically analyzed. Historical analysis can also help to question the self-evidence of our contemporary conceptualization of management. Xenophon's philosophy of management enables us to criticize the contemporary focus on profit maximization and to articulate an intrinsic relation between business and society; to criticize the contemporary disconnectedness of business management and to develop a broader set of individual competencies and know-how that is required for business managers; to criticize the contemporary focus on management and control; and to rehabilitate the role of business management as ability and capacity that involves knowhow, actual engagement, and virtuous competencies. Finally, this concept of management challenges contemporary conceptualizations of the differences between private and public management in political philosophical debates.

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Why is it That Management Seems to Have No History?

Cited by 6 publications

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Management organisational history – a military lesson?

Management organisational history – a military lesson?

What Is (Business) Management? Laying the Ground for a Philosophy of Management

Xenophon’s Philosophy of Management

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