History of Management Studies as a Field Elena Raviola Foundations in Management Lecture 2

WHEN WAS MANAGEMENT BORN?

An historical view Big efforts in Ancient Times – The Egyptians – The Romans – The Vikings In the Middle Age – Organizing agriculture

…and then came: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION – From the second half of 1700 in England – In 1800 in central Europe – At the end of 1800 in Southern Europé Emerging thinkers – Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations – Karl Marx: The Capital

1900 Scientific Management (Taylor) Bureaucracy (Weber) Administration theory (Fayol) Fordism Old Institutional Theory (Selznick) System theory and socio- technical systems Decision theory (Simon & March) Contingency theory Strategy Agency theory Transaction costs (Williamson) Organizing (Weick) Adapted from Eriksson-Zetterquist et al., 2005 Hawthorne studies and human relations

Four main contemporary ”turns” and their roots New institutionalism Old institutionalism Bureaucracy System theory Practice theory Sociology of practice Organizing Socio-technical systems Organizing ANT and the material turn Cultural turn Ethnomethodology Weber Organizing Old institutionalism