The Dissemination of Management Innovations through Consultancy in the Postwar Period

Ćwiklicki, Marek and Alcouffe, Alain (2013): The Dissemination of Management Innovations through Consultancy in the Postwar Period.

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to fulfill and to refine the role of consultancy and professional bodies in dissemination of management innovations in the Inter- and Postwar Period that was in these days scientific management in Europe. The proposition is set upon the case of French consultancies and organizing bodies (i.e. professional societies and associations) and their activities to popularize the scientific management movement with a special reference to the Henry Bernaténé’s output.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: business history, dissemination, management innovation, consultancy
• Subjects: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B2 - History of Economic Thought since 1925; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B3 - History of Economic Thought: Individuals; M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M1 - Business Administration

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