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History of Management Thought

Genesis and Development from Ancient Origins to the Present Day

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This book describes the millennia-long process of the genesis, formation, struggle, and change of views on the management of social organizations in various countries around the world; in other words, it characterizes the worldwide evolution of the History of Management Thought (HMT) - ideas, concepts, theories, paradigms, and scientific schools - from Antiquity to the present.

The book is the outcome of extensive research, based on the analysis, generalization, and systematization of foreign and domestic published literature, as well as on the gathering and analysis of unique archival materials. For the first time in the historical and managerial literature, the book puts forward original definitions of three historical and managerial sciences - the History of Management, the History of Management Thought, and the Historiography of Historical and Managerial Research. It addresses the main challenges in pursuing Historical and Scientific Research (HSR), the main “subject” levels of HSR and specific methodological problems concerning HMT, as well as epistemological methods for identifying key factors in and causes of the advent and evolution of HMT.

This book presents both the origins of management thought dating back to the 5th millennium BC and the latest management concepts of the early 21st century. In particular, it traces the origins and sources of management thought, reflected in the works of thinkers and statesmen of the Ancient World (Egypt, Western Asia, China, India, Greece, and Rome), the era of feudalism, and the Middle Ages (Byzantium, Western Europe, and England), the era of inception capitalism (Western Europe and the USA), as well as the new and recent history of management thought of the 20th and 21st centuries. In addition, for the first time in History of Management literature, it presents the history of Russian management thought from the 9th century to modern concepts and scientific schools.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Issues of Historical and Managerial Research
Abstract
This chapter introduces the main methodological issues in the formation and development of the History of Management Thought (HMT). Here are the main questions that the history of management thought should answer: “Why and for What purpose has one or another management idea been proposed?” Why was it proposed at specifically this time and place? “Which conditions and circumstances have affected the emergence of a new management idea?” Here emphasis is being made on the relevance of increasing scientific validity in management decisions, the general and specific characteristics of HMT as a scientific, applied and educational discipline, the role and place of HMT in the history of science, issues of organization of research and methods of HMT development, source study and other issues of HMT are disclosed. Here the reader will get acquainted with the three main concepts of management thought—the models of the police, legal, and cultural states.
Vadim I. Marshev

Genesis and Development of World Management Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the XIX Century

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Chapter 2. The Origins of Management Thought: From Fifth Millennium B.C. to the Fifth Century
Abstract
This chapter describes the main sources and origins of global management thinking over the centuries, from the emergence of the first human civilizations to the early feudalism era. Managerial aspects of the ancient world’s management monuments—treatises of thinkers, statesmen, leaders of economies, and social, religious, and military leaders—are disclosed. The objects of comparative analysis of views on economic management were representatives of ancient states—Egypt, Front Asia, China, India, Greece, and Rome. This chapter also briefly describes management ideas in the Old and New Testaments.
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Chapter 3. World Management Thought in the Fifth to Nineteenth Centuries
Abstract
This chapter further describes the main directions and works that reflect the development of management ideas, attitudes, and concepts in Western countries in fifth to nineteenth centuries. This chapter is perhaps one of the first special treatises on management, the authors of which were organizers of industries, statesmen, academics, high school teachers, including the first business schools. The objects of comparative analysis of views on economic management were representatives of a number of European countries, as well as well-known creators of management ideas—classics of political economy, philosophy, law. The chapter ends with characteristics of the famous treatise “The Doctrine of Management” by Lorenz von Stein.
Vadim I. Marshev
Chapter 4. The Emergence and Formation of Management Thought in Russia (Ninth to Eighteenth Centuries)
Abstract
This chapter examines genesis, formation, and the development of management thinking in Russia of the ninth to eighteenth centuries. The authors of ideas here are state and religious figures, academics, representatives of various Russian categories, and classes, including representatives of the nascent third word. The sources were ancient records and tales, legislation, monographs of scientists and thinkers, archival documents, and memoirs. Of particular interest is the Sylvester’ treatise “The Domostroy,” containing many original ideas of household management. Among the heroes and creators of Russia’s management thought of this period are princes, emperors and representatives of imperial families, statesmen, advisers to emperors, and scientists such as Yurij Krizhanich, Ivan Pososhkov, and Michail Lomonosov.
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Chapter 5. Management Thought in Russia in 1800–1917
Abstract
This chapter of the textbook reflects the development of management thought in Russia in the 1800–1917. At this time, the works of M. Speransky appeared, for the first time, сameralist branches at Russian universities were opened, treatises on management of higher school and materials of the-trade and industry and Industrial Congresses (which focused on relevant issues of management) were published, and management reforms led by Russian government officials were implemented. The objects of comparative analysis of views on the management of the Russian state and private economy were representatives of four major socio-political movements in Russia that existed in Russia during the period under review—the revolutionary democrats, the populists, the bourgeoisie, and the proletariat. In addition, this chapter discusses various forms of creating and developing management ideas—the opening of commercial and legal schools, special training courses in management, holding major all-Russian trade and industrial congresses, etc.
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New and Newest History of Management Thought

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Chapter 6. Western Schools of Management of the Twentieth Century
Abstract
This chapter introduces the main western schools of management of the twentieth century. In all known works in the history of public opinion, this era is referred to as the era of scientific management. The characteristics of management schools show both their continuity with the management ideas of the past and their fundamentality and paradigmality in terms of future theories and concepts of management. The objects of comparative analysis are both the creators of new concepts, theories, and even schools of management (F. Taylor, A. Fayol, E. Mayo, G. Minzberg, etc.), and the axiomatics and results of the schools of management themselves (the school of “scientific management,” administrative school, school of human relations, the roles of managers, etc.).
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Chapter 7. Development of the Scientific Basis of Management in the USSR and in Russia in Twentieth Century
Abstract
This chapter is devoted to the history of Soviet management thought, from the work of the promoters of Taylor’s “Scientific management” and H. Fayol’s Administrative School of Management to the original work of Soviet academics and practitioners of management on issues of effective management of the planned socialist economy before 1990. The sources were the works of researchers of this period—Russian and foreign scientists, the works of statesmen, as well as the materials of the HMT&B and AOM conferences, the work of the Leningrad School of Management, headed by professors Yuri Lavrikov and Eduard Koritsky. Particular attention in this chapter is paid to the formation and development of the Soviet scientific school of management, headed since the 1960s by Moscow State University professor Gavriil Popov, to a comparative analysis of the works of representatives of this school, as creators of the original concept of “Management as a system” and the original substantiation of “Management as a science.”
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Chapter 8. Actual Problems and Concepts of Management
Abstract
In the previous chapters of the textbook, the material was mainly presented “in the language” of two different parameters (or coordinates): either a time period (with a quantum from 1 year to a millennium), or regions of the world. This chapter speaks in terms of “current managerial problems” that have an ancient history but still remain relevant in the countries of the world. Naturally, in the process of the problem statement, one had to refer to both time and regions, but already as parameters of secondary importance.
The materials of this chapter reflect the development of management thought in solving topical management problems in areas such as Organizational Culture, Leadership, Management Ethics, and Digitalization of Management.
Vadim I. Marshev
Backmatter
Metadata
Title
History of Management Thought
Author
Prof. Vadim I. Marshev
Copyright Year
2021
Electronic ISBN
978-3-030-62337-1
Print ISBN
978-3-030-62336-4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62337-1