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Author O'Connor, Ellen

Title Creating New Knowledge in Management : Appropriating the Field's Lost Foundations
Published Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (266 pages)
Contents List of Tables; Preface; Abbreviations Used in the Text; 1. Introduction and Problem: No Institution of Management Knowledge; Part I : Institutional Fault Lines in and around the Business School; Part II: Recovering the Lost Foundations of a Science of Management; Part III: Building on Follett and Barnard; Appendix: Tables; References; Index
Summary Creating New Knowledge in Management rediscovers lost sources in the work of Mary Parker Follett and Chester Barnard, providing a foundation for management as a unique and coherent discipline. This book begins by explaining that research universities, and the management field in particular, have splintered into smaller and less related parts. It then recovers a lost tradition of integrating management and the humanities, exploring ways of building on this convention to advance the unique art and science of business. By way of Follett and Barnard's work, author Ellen S. O'Connor demonstrates how
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Subject Management -- Study and teaching -- United States
Business schools -- United States
Business schools
Management -- Study and teaching
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804778374
080477837X