The Marshall Plan, the French productivity missions and the discovery of American-style management

Jean-François Chanlat

Chapter 3 in Against Amnesia, 2026, pp 103-120 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The post-war period combined strong growth, individual and collective enrichment, and mass consumption in a context of East–West opposition, and this, despite all the criticism that has since been levelled at this period, led to the triumph of what regulation theorists describe as the Fordist mode of production. During these three decades (1950s to 1970s), this development was linked to three moments, each of which played a key role in the evolution of the non-socialist world, particularly within the French Hexagon: 1) the establishment of the Marshall Plan and French productivity missions in the United States, which were one of its main components; 2) the discovery, following these missions, of organisational sciences and research-based management programmes by French-speaking countries (which led, particularly in France, to the emergence of the first Institut d’Administration des Entreprises, the first university dedicated to these new disciplines, Université Paris-Dauphine, and the gradual institutionalisation of the field of management sciences) and 3) following this encounter, the development of research in the fields of work and organisations, from which numerous disciplines are going to emerge.

Keywords: Marshall plan; French productivity missions; American management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781049400242
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