 A Counter-History of Sustainable Management (or How the American Most Hated by Big Business Invented Management)Stephen Cummings () and
Todd Bridgman ()
Chapter Chapter 3 in The Past, Present and Future of Sustainable Management, 2021, pp 39-103 from Springer Abstract: Abstract Management’s conventional historical narrative is that ‘the father’ of Management is F.W. Taylor. While efficiency has been a universal concern of all great civilizations, Taylor was the first to preach the ‘gospel of efficiency’ and develop theories that enabled managers to achieve it. This origin story reinforces the belief that the good that defines Management is economic efficiency. However, the counter-history developed in this chapter looks at the period prior to Taylor’s publication of the book seen as Management’s first document in 1911, to investigate where the approach attributed to Taylor—Scientific Management—came from. We unearth a forgotten founder with a very different view. Louis Brandeis developed Scientific Management in 1910. It was shaped by his professional practice over three decades and Brandeis defined its good or motive as conservation: or what we today might term sustainability. Keywords: Frederick Taylor; Louis Brandeis; Conservation; Sustainability; Economic Efficiency; Social Goods (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-71076-7_3 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71076-7_3 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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