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Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management

Daniel Nelson
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The article was published on 1980-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 158 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Scientific management.

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Flexible specialization versus post-Fordism: theory, evidence and policy implications

TL;DR: There is widespread agreement that something dramatic has been happening to the international economy over the past two decades: rapid and radical changes in production technology and industrial organization, a major restructuring of world markets, and consequent large-scale changes in the policies of economic management at the internahonal, national and regional levels as mentioned in this paper.
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Management and organizational history: Prospects

TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline the prospects for Management & Organizational History in the form of a 10-point agenda identifying issues that they envisage being addressed in the journal The Journal of Management & Organization History.
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Are we there yet? What's next for HR?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors characterize HR's journey as having a singular direction and that is to add value to the organization and propose that future HR will need to adopt an outside/inside approach where the external environment and stakeholders influence what HR does inside the organization.
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Utilitarian, managerial, and relational theories of corporate social responsibility

TL;DR: In this article, three groups of theories have been discerned: (1) the utilitarian group, in which the corporation is intended as a maximizing "black box" where problems of externalities and social costs emerge; (2) the managerial category, where the problems of responsibility are approached from inside the firm (internal perspective); (3) relational theories, or the type of relations between the firm and the environment are at the center of the analysis.
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Value creation and decision-making in sustainable society

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a discussion of the nature of value considering a history of axiology, design problems of artifacts, social dilemmas, network externalities, and sustainability.