 Management paradigms in Finnish journals and literature between 1921 and 2006Hannele Seeck and Anna Kuokkanen Business History, 2010, vol. 52, issue 2, 306-336 Abstract: This article examines when the information on central management paradigms first arrived in Finland, and how they have been discussed in Finnish journals. Our key findings reveal that rational paradigms - scientific management and structural analysis - dominated management discussions in Finnish journals until the 1980s, and that discussion on management paradigms in Finland in the twentieth century appears to have been characterised by a slow transition from rational ideology towards normative ideologies. We also found that Barley and Kunda's thesis (1992) regarding the alternation of rational and normative ideologies is not really applicable to Finland: it would seem that the emergence and adoption of paradigms coincide more with changes in economic and business structure and influences arriving from abroad. Keywords: management paradigms; management history; scientific management; human relations; structural analysis; organisational culture; Finland; empirical study (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:bushst:v:52:y:2010:i:2:p:306-336 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/00076791003610709 Access Statistics for this article Business History is currently edited by Professor John Wilson and Professor Steven Toms More articles in Business History from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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