Overview
- Presents an updated short history of management ideas
- Integration of different streams of country-specific literature
- Discusses contextual influences on business administration research illustrated by developments in Germany
Part of the book series: Contributions to Management Science (MANAGEMENT SC.)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Before the Institutionalization of Business Administration as a Science
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Criteria for Business Administration as a Science
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The Institutionalized Science
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Limitations, Further Needs and Lessons Learned
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About this book
This book offers a short history of business administration in four parts. Part 1 takes the reader from 8000 BCE with the development of simple control techniques to the middle of the nineteenth century. At this time, normative, empirical, and theoretical approaches to business problems in the industrial area were developed. Furthermore, more powerful methodologies came into use. In Part 2, the criteria for science are discussed and related to the development of business administration as a science at the beginning of the twentieth century. Part 3 demonstrates, using Germany as an example, the development of business administration as strongly influenced by its societal environment. The cases of National Socialist Germany, the socialist environment of the German Democratic Republic, and the reconstruction of an academic-inspired business administration in Western Germany are provided as illustrative examples. Part 3 also presents a typology of major specializations in business administration, examples of their development, and a proposal for a curricular approach to the discipline. The fourth and final part presents the benefits of studying the history of management ideas.
This book is useful for academics in business administration, advanced students, and anyone who seeks to understand recent developments in business administration.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Klaus Brockhoff is an emeritus professor. He has taught innovation management, business strategy, and history of ideas in management at the University of Kiel (Germany) and WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany). His research is published in leading journals both nationally and internationally, such as Management Science, Econometrica, Research Policy, R&D Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, the Journal of Product Innovation Management, the Journal of Management History, Schmalenbach Business Review, and the Journal of Business Economics, and he has authored a number of books. He led academic associations and served as a consultant to governmental and private institutions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Management Ideas
Book Subtitle: A Short History of Business Administration
Authors: Klaus Brockhoff
Series Title: Contributions to Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09962-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09961-8Published: 02 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09964-9Published: 03 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09962-5Published: 01 September 2022
Series ISSN: 1431-1941
Series E-ISSN: 2197-716X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 272
Topics: Management Education, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Business Strategy/Leadership