Anthropology: the forgotten behavioral science in management history
Nancy C. Morey
(Department of Management, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA)
Fred Luthans
(Department of Management, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA)
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Abstract
This paper traces and acknowledges the heretofore generally overlooked contributions that anthropology and anthropologists have made to the history of management thought. Particular attention is devoted to tracing the early anthropological roots, highlighting the contributions made to the Hawthorne studies, and featuring the work of William Foote Whyte.
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Citation
Morey, N.C. and Luthans, F. (2013), "Anthropology: the forgotten behavioral science in management history", Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 2 No. 1, pp. 82-91. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-04-2013-0007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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