3. World Management Thought in the Fifth to Nineteenth Centuries

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.