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Management is a fragmented and interdisciplinary area of study, with a lot of academic branches. Willman argues this tree is narrower at its roots, and these roots lie primarily in social science. Key to the purpose of the book is to present management theory as applied social science. Developed out...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Willman, Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Social sciences and management.
Management > Sociological aspects.
Management > Social aspects.
Sciences sociales et gestion.
Gestion > Aspect sociologique.
Gestion > Aspect social.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Organizational Behavior.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The management field. Theme 1. Accounting for capitalism
  • The firm. Theme 2. The agency problem
  • Workers of the world ... Theme 3. A short history of collective action
  • The search for consummate cooperation. Theme 4. A short history of bounded rationality
  • The structuring of origanizations. Theme 5. Measuring performance : scorecards and league tables
  • Strategy as competition and cooperation. Theme 6. A short history of the M form
  • Strategy as organizational theory. Theme 7. Managing markets from hierarchies
  • The strange rise of financial economics. Theme 8. The modern corporation
  • The anthropology of management. Theme 9. Performativity
  • does life imitate art?
  • In search of a better past?

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