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Modern innovation management theory and the evolving US lighting industry
Darian UngerThe purpose of this paper is to use a series of disruptive innovations in the 150‐year history of the US lighting industry to test whether two key innovation management theories…
Improvisation versus rigid command and control at Stalingrad
Malcolm BradyThe merit of improvisation over command and control as an organizational approach is the subject of much debate in the management and emergency literatures. The purpose of this…
Reforming the world monetary system: How Fritz Machlup built consensus among business leaders and academics using scenario analysis
Carol M. ConnellThe purpose of this paper is to examine Fritz Machlup's method and use of scenario analysis in the policy discussions around exchange rate solutions to balance of payments…
Frank George Woollard: forgotten pioneer of flow production
M.L. Emiliani, P.J. SeymourThe purpose of this paper is to introduce management historians to the long‐forgotten work of Frank George Woollard (1883‐1957), who in the mid‐1920s established flow production…
History of US public administration in the Progressive era: Efficient government by and for whom?
Mordecai LeeHistories of American public administration during the Progressive era (1890‐1920) tend to highlight the positive contributions of its major founders, skimming lightly over…
Ansoff revisited: How Ansoff interfaces with both the planning and learning schools of thought in strategy
Robert MoussetisThe purpose of this paper is to revisit Igor Ansoff's work and how it interfaces with the various schools of strategic management.
Integrating Barnard's and contemporary views of industrial relations and HRM
Milorad M. Novicevic, Mario Hayek, Tony FangThe purpose of this paper is to juxtapose the contemporary views of industrial relations (IR) and human resource management (HRM) with the ideas expressed by Chester Barnard.
ISSN:
1751-1348Online date, start – end:
2006Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Bradley Bowden
- Jeffrey Muldoon