Management Decision: Volume 40 Issue 10

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/00251740210437734. When citing the…

The control of pensions: a brief history and possibilities for the future

Richard L. Hannah

Institutional history is important in the context of understanding the control of pension systems. This history has both theoretical and practical value for developing policy…

Human resource accounting: a historical perspective and future implications

Eric G. Flamholtz, Maria L. Bullen, Wei Hua

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview and history of human resource accounting (HRA) with the objective of promoting both continued academic research and…

Improving employer‐employee relationships: a biblical and Talmudic perspective on human resource management

Gordon Cohn, Hershey H. Friedman

The authors demonstrate that the Bible and Talmud provide many insights as to how employers ought to manage human resources. Issues discussed include employee theft, motivation…

The role of economics and industrial relations in the development of the field of personnel/human resource management

Bruce E. Kaufman

This paper surveys the contribution of economics and industrial relations (E/IR) to the development of the field of personnel/human resource management (P/HRM). A brief review of…

Chester Barnard’s “executive” and the knowledge‐based firm

R. Ray Gehani

Chester Barnard’s 1938 book The Functions of the Executive is re‐examined in the context of the emerging knowledge‐based dynamic theory of the firm. The key constructs and the…

“Playing by ear” . . . “in an incessant din of reasons”: Chester Barnard and the history of intuition in management thought

Milorad M. Novicevic, Thomas J. Hench, Daniel A. Wren

In the closing decades of the twentieth, and at the start of the twenty‐first, centuries, attention has again turned to the critical role of intuition in effective managerial…

Juxtaposition of Chester I. Barnard and Frederick W. Taylor: forerunners of management

Satyanarayana Parayitam, Margaret A. White, Jill R. Hough

Much has been written about the works of Chester I. Barnard and Frederick W. Taylor but little attempt has been made by scholars to compare Barnard and Taylor. Barnard is a…

Managing a riot: Chester Barnard and social unrest

James Hoopes

This paper examines a key event in the life of Chester Barnard, a “riot of the unemployed” in Trenton, New Jersey in 1935 when Barnard was director of the state Emergency Relief…

Chester Barnard: member of the “élite”?

Steven M. Dunphy, James Hoopes

This paper asks whether or not Chester Barnard was a member of an intellectual or managerial “élite”. While it is clear that Barnard provides great insight regarding leadership…

Deming: a new philosophy or another voice?

John B. Washbush

This article questions the widely held proposition that the management philosophy of W. Edwards Deming, with its focus on quality improvement and pragmatic thinking, is a new…