Description
Book SynopsisThis book rediscovers lost sources in the work of Mary Parker Follett and Chester Barnard to revive and substantiate the long-abandoned idea of a coherent and unique management discipline—consisting of a science, applied science, and profession. It conceives of the development a Management institution that would makes advances comparable to the more established academic fields.
Trade Review"
Creating New Knowledge in Management performs the important task of revisiting seminal management authors (Follett, Barnard) and demonstrating their continuing relevance. In doing this, the book generates a new understanding of the origins of management thought, linking this to current debates about the role of business schools." -- Ken Starkey * Nottingham University Business School and author of
The Business School and the Bottom Line *
"This thoughtful book highlights the need for business schools to teach current managers and managers-to-be the benefits of appreciating and acting upon this key notion: The expansion of cooperative behavior and the development of the individual are mutually dependent realities, and a balance of these two elements is needed for an organization to maintain vitality." -- Joe Mahoney * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *
"Dr. O'Connor blends careful research and meticulous scholarship with her keen philosophical and postmodern perspective to reinterpret the world and works of Mary Parker Follett and Chester Barnard for our time. Grounding her work deeply in the writings of these two legends in management thought, O'Connor's book brings each of these characters, and their important ideas, forward and revitalizes their work in terms of current management challenges. My sense is that this book will be the definitive work on Barnard for the next generation of scholars." -- Paul Godfrey * Brigham Young University *
