The Development of Professional Management

Training, Consultancy, and Management Theory in Industrial History
Herausgeber: Wilson, John F; Toms, Steven; Jones, Ian

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on the development of professional management.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781032038407
• ISBN-10: 1032038403
• Artikelnr.: 62219942

Autorenporträt

John F. Wilson is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Law) at Northumbria University, Newcastle. He has published widely in the fields of business, management, and industrial history, including ten monographs, six edited collections, and over seventy articles and chapters. Ian Jones is a Senior Research Assistant at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, and won the John F. Mee Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management in 2018 for his contribution to the Management History Division. Steven Toms is Professor of Accounting at the University of Leeds. He is a former editor of Business History. His research interests are focused on accounting and financial history and the history of the textile industry.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction John Wilson, Ian Jones, Steven Toms 1. Models of Management
education and training: the 'consultancy approach' Michael Ferguson 2.
Visible hands and visible handles: understanding the managerial revolution
in the UK John Quail 3. The evolution of education and training in British
management consultancy Michael Ferguson 4. Marxist manager amidst the
progressives: Walter N. Polakov and the Taylor Society Diana Kelly