Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History
Harvard Business Review
JULY 30, 2014
By the early 1900’s, the term “management” was in wide use, and Adam Smith’s ideas came into their own. Townes, and Henry L. Peter Drucker, one of the first management specialists to achieve guru status, was representative of this era. His book Concept of the Corporation , published in 1946, was a direct response to Alfred P.
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