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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Only glimmers of what was to come showed up in the work of thinkers such as Adam Smith, with his insight that the division of labor would increase productivity. Along with the new means of production, organizations gained scale. Townes, and Henry L. Douglas McGregor’s “Theory Y” is representative of the genre.