PurposeCurrent headlines depicting the billion dollar government bailouts of
some of the world's largest business corporations suggest that a new paradigm of
management is needed. This paper seeks to propose that the management theory of
Peter F. Drucker and certain Aristotelian concepts, expressed in the Nicomachean
Ethics and Politics, are applicable to the business community
today.Design/method... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze how popular culture in general
and movies in particular both reflected and shaped public attitudes to newly
emerging corporate giants in the 1950s; to demonstrate how that view was itself
shaped by political context and prevailing American
ideology.Design/methodology/approachThe paper rests on a content analysis of 11
corporate films released in the U... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeThis article seeks to depict the pivotal role Hugo Munsterberg, the great
pioneer in industrial psychology, played in the lives of his students, some of
whom were feminists regardless of his own chauvinistic opinions. The article
aims to examine the contributions made by Mary Calkins, Ethel Puffer, and
William Marston, all former students of Munsterberg, who went on to make
valuable contrib... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeTo test the hypothesis of increased specialisation during the 1980s in
the aggregate pattern of intercorporate ownership in the Canadian
economy.Design/methodology/approachThe network of ownership between enterprises
and subsidiaries is characterised for the period 1976‐1995 using data for the
population of medium‐sized and large Canadian corporations collected by
Statistics Canada.Findings... hiện toàn bộ
JackSmothers, MarioHayek, Leigh AnnBynum, Milorad M.Novicevic, M. RonaldBuckley, ShawnCarraher
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to summarize the life and works of Alfred
Chandler and highlight the impact of his thoughts on organizational theory,
strategy and history.Design/methodology/approachThe paper analyzes Alfred
Chandler's life and the lasting contributions his works have provided to many
disciplines as well as the work of his revisionists. Furthermore, the paper
analyzes his contr... hiện toàn bộ