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The impacts of business strategy on organizational structure
Thomas G. MarxThe purpose of this paper is to test Chandler’s dictum that “unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results” (Chandler, 1962, p. 314) by assessing the continuing efforts…
Performance-based pay: alternative interpretations of the Portsmouth Block Mills’ savings
James M. WilsonThe purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse a historic performance-based pay system used in 1803-1810 to reward Marc Isambard Brunel for his innovative engineering…
Perceptions of Taylorism and a Marxist scientific manager
Diana KellyThis paper aims to provide evidence of pro-worker orientation and acceptance of socialist idealism in scientific management, with particular focus on Walter Polakov.
You’re in the Army now!: Historical lessons for contemporary management theorists
Philip A. Ritson, Lee D. ParkerThis paper aims to examine the employment of the military metaphor by the management thinker and writer Lyndall Urwick who in the twentieth century developed and articulated his…
The evolution of management from a trust to arm’s length model in family run businesses: The case of the diamond industry
Ron Berger, David Lamond, Yossi Gavish, Ram HersteinThe primary purpose of this paper is to fill the research gap regarding the evolution of managerial processes within (largely family) diamond industry firms, especially over the…
ISSN:
1751-1348Online date, start – end:
2006Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Bradley Bowden
- Jeffrey Muldoon