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Zusatztext A significant examination of our understanding of management, the interrelationship between its various disciplines, and its institutional underpinnings. Willman is equally, and uniquely, at ease discussing finance as well as culture. Incisive, broad-ranging, engaging and enjoyable to read. Informationen zum Autor Paul Willman is a Professor of Management at LSE. He was head of the Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group from 2008-11. He designed and launched the two year Masters' in Management degree, and launched a modular Executive version (Global MiM) in 2013. He was Professorial Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford and the inaugural Ernest Butten Professor of Management Studies in the Said Business School, Oxford University, 2000-2006. He was Director of Executive Education at Oxford 2001-3 and founding Director of the Oxford EMBA. He was Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Industrial Relations at London Business School from 1991-2000, Director of the Sloan Msc Programme, 1989-92 and Head of the Organisational Behaviour Group 1998-2000. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
