Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History
Harvard Business Review
JULY 30, 2014
To coordinate these larger organizations, owners needed to depend on others, which economists call “agents” and the rest of us call “managers”. By the early 1900’s, the term “management” was in wide use, and Adam Smith’s ideas came into their own. Douglas McGregor’s “Theory Y” is representative of the genre.
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