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Understanding management : social science foundations / Paul Willman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. Description: x, 321 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780198716921 (pbk.)
  • 0198716923 (pbk.)
  • 9780198716914 (hbk.)
  • 0198716915 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658 WIL 23 005637
LOC classification:
  • HD30.19 .W55 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
INTRODUCTION ; 1. The Management Field ; Theme A: Accounting for Capitalism ; 2. The Firm ; Theme B: The Agency Problem ; 3. Workers of the World ; Theme C: A Short History of Collective Action ; 4. The Search for Consummate Co-operation ; Theme D: A Short history of Bounded Rationality ; 5. The Structuring of Organisations ; Theme E: Measuring Performance; scorecards and league tables ; 6. Strategy as Competition and Cooperation ; Theme F: A Short history of the M form ; 7. Strategy as Organisational Theory ; Theme G: Managing Markets from Hierarchies ; 8. The Strange Rise of Finance ; Theme H: The Modern Corporation ; 9. The Anthropology of Management? ; Theme I: Performativity; Does Life Imitate Art? ; 10. In Search of a Better Past. ; APPENDIX SOME CORE TEXTS
Summary: This comprehensive introductory text explains the roots of the management field in the social sciences; and how it developed and why. Appealing to those with a broad interest in the area, this book will also act as a guide to the extensive literatures in the field for those wishing to go further.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

INTRODUCTION ; 1. The Management Field ; Theme A: Accounting for Capitalism ; 2. The Firm ; Theme B: The Agency Problem ; 3. Workers of the World ; Theme C: A Short History of Collective Action ; 4. The Search for Consummate Co-operation ; Theme D: A Short history of Bounded Rationality ; 5. The Structuring of Organisations ; Theme E: Measuring Performance; scorecards and league tables ; 6. Strategy as Competition and Cooperation ; Theme F: A Short history of the M form ; 7. Strategy as Organisational Theory ; Theme G: Managing Markets from Hierarchies ; 8. The Strange Rise of Finance ; Theme H: The Modern Corporation ; 9. The Anthropology of Management? ; Theme I: Performativity; Does Life Imitate Art? ; 10. In Search of a Better Past. ; APPENDIX SOME CORE TEXTS

This comprehensive introductory text explains the roots of the management field in the social sciences; and how it developed and why. Appealing to those with a broad interest in the area, this book will also act as a guide to the extensive literatures in the field for those wishing to go further.

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