Highlighting missing links between social innovation and philosophies of management: a comparative historical study of M.P Follett and O. Sheldon’s works in the 1920’s

Sébastien Damart ()
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Sébastien Damart: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This communication is a study across two fields: management history and social innovation. This is an attempt to show that most of the current fundamental postures of social innovation were contained in the 1920s' philosophies of management. Our demonstration is based on a historical study comparing the development of conceptual edifices of two figures of management, both also concerned with social innovation: Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) and Oliver Sheldon (1894-1951). In a way, these two pioneers of management have created, a hundred years ago, a language to define management, based on the fundamental assumptions that social innovation adopts nowadays.

Keywords: Social innovation; philosophy of management; Oliver Sheldon; Mary Parker Follett (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-09
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Published in 8th International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC 2016), Sep 2016, Glasgow, United Kingdom. pp.15

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