Creating New Knowledge in Management : Appropriating the Field's Lost Foundations / Ellen S. O'Connor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Connor, Ellen S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management--Study and teaching--United States.

Management.

Management--Study and teaching.

Business schools.

United States.

Business schools--United States.

Physical Description:

xv, 244 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford Business Books, An Imprint of Stanford University Press, [2011]

Contents:

Introduction and problem : no institution of management knowledge

The institutionalizing research university : rise of the scientific tradition

The 19th-century business school : fall of the classical and rise of the vocational and school-of-opportunity traditions

The 20th-century business school : integrating the vocational and scientific traditions

Mary Parker Follett's unbounded relationality

Chester Barnard's science of responsible experience

Revisiting Barnard and Simon's private argument

Integrating research and responsibility : collaborating with an executive

Integrating education, research, and responsibility : experimenting with master's-level teaching

Conclusion and solution : integrating the knowledge traditions and building a discipline of management.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237) and index.

ISBN:

9780804770750

0804770751

OCLC:

719673381

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