Handbook of Research on Management and Organizational History

Edited by Kyle Bruce, formerly Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University, Australia

• Contents:1 Introduction to the Handbook of Research on Management and Organizational History: the hotly contested present state of management and organizational history 1Kyle BrucePART I CLASSIC FOUNDATIONS2 Thinking differently about Adam Smith’s legacy for management studies 11Stephen Cummings and Todd Bridgman3 The uses of Frederick Winslow Taylor: how management theorists have interpreted scientific management over the years and why 39Hindy Lauer Schachter4 Contested paths: a meta-analytic review of the Hawthorne studies’ literature 56Jeff Muldoon and Yaron Zoller5 Making the Res Publica: the political basis of management in the US – the works of Joseph Wharton, Mary Parker Follett, and Chester Barnard 80Ellen S. O’Connor6 Seebohm Rowntree and the British interwar management movement 101Mairi Maclean, Gareth Shaw, Alan Booth, Rachel Pistol and Morgen WitzelPART II ALTERNATIVE VOICES7 From West Point to points west: the French absolutist roots of the American industrial corporation 123Richard Marens8 Towards a Zen-informed approach to management and organizational history 146Tianyuan Yu, Albert J. Mills and Jean Helms Mills9 Sport and project management: a window into the development of temporary organizations 169Alex G. Gillett and Kevin D. Tennent10 Decolonialism and management (geo)history: is the past also a place? 192Amon Barros and Sérgio Wanderley11 The commercial practices of the crown and the state: locating British trade with, and ‘commercial imperialism’ in, Africa, in the geopolitics of Europe 212Nelarine Cornelius and Eric PezetPART III ABOUT HISTORY12 Feminist critical historiography: undoing history – a conceptual model 242Kristin S. Williams13 Unpacking organizational re-membering 256William M. Foster, Diego Coraiola, Chris Quinn-Trank and François Bastien14 Contextualizing the historian: an ANTi-History perspective 275Gabrielle Durepos, Albert J. Mills and Patricia Genoe McLarenIndex 293

'Kyle Bruce has succeeded in producing a worthwhile introduction to the tension between management historians who actually do historical work and their postmodern colleagues who write about how one should or might do it. The contributed chapters composing the Handbook make abundantly clear that the practice of history cannot be separated from its theoretical foundations. Regardless of academic persuasion - whether one thinks that all interpretations of the past are invented or, in contrast, believe that there is an objective reality - readers of all stripes will benefit from being exposed to the arguments advanced by adherents of both camps.'--Arthur G. Bedeian, Louisiana State University, US