A New History of (Sustainable) Management

Stephen Cummings () and Todd Bridgman ()
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Stephen Cummings: Victoria University of Wellington
Todd Bridgman: Victoria University of Wellington

Chapter Chapter 4 in The Past, Present and Future of Sustainable Management, 2021, pp 105-144 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Our counter-history has questioned assumed continuities and discontinuities that inform our historical understanding of Management and Sustainable Management: Taylor was not a miraculous break from the past, the adoption of his ideas was part of a broader age of conservation; Management did not evolve to support an industrial world view, but in opposition to it; Sustainable Management is not a new breakthrough, but a continuous concern since pre-modern times. Thinking differently in this way enables us to propose a new history: one where Sustainable Management is not an add-on to Management, but where they are one and the same. It is a new history linking indigenous approaches: Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, Brandeis, Mary Parker Follett and a diverse range of Management founders. In this way, sustainability can be seen at the core of Management: a key point of origin defining a different fundamental good for Management in the present and for the future.

Keywords: Indigenous Peoples; Adam Smith; Theory of Moral Sentiments; Mary Parker Follett; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71076-7_4

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