Factory and Production Problems to Scientific Management Societies: Legitimacy of the Scientific Management Movement

Burak Külli̇ ()
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Burak Külli̇: Istanbul University, School of Business, Department of Business, Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul Management Journal, 2019, vol. 0, issue 87, 159-177

Abstract: This research aims to shed light on legitimization phases of scientific management movement, which was stemmed from problems of namely American railway and heavy manufacturing industries. In the last quarter of the 19th century, emphasizing management problems in bulletins of American railways and bulletins of manufacturing industries were pointed out essentialness establish platform for arguing management problems. Within a decade, ASME transformed into main platform of management movement, and soon after Taylor Society named after pioneer of Scientific Management Movement. From early part of nineteenth century to date that its merge under the name of Society for Advancement of Management, the Society published dozens of bulletins, under the name Bulletin of Taylor Society, became platform for management movement, and hosted national and international management congress, especially in America and some part of the world. Hence, in this research, I revisit the certain and important phases of the movement, the legitimization phases of the scientific management movement, through bring into view support of societies, publications and, national and international congresses.

Keywords: Scientific Management; Scientific Management Society; Legitimization; Taylor Society; ASME (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.26650/imj.2019.87.0007

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