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The Origin of Management is Sustainability: Recovering an Alternative Foundation for Management

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posted on 2020-07-30, 00:40 authored by Stephen CummingsStephen Cummings, Todd BridgmanTodd Bridgman
Management's origins are conventionally traced to F.W Taylor's Scientific Management - an efficiency driven worldview now superseded by a concern for sustainability. We argue the opposite: it was a concern for sustainability that made Scientific Management. Regarding this as the origin and underlying purpose of management studies could spark significant innovation.

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Cummings, S. & Bridgman, T. (2014, January). The Origin of Management is Sustainability: Recovering an Alternative Foundation for Management. In Academy of Management Proceedings (2014 (1)pp. 327-332). Philadelphia: Academy of Management. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2014.25

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Academy of Management Proceedings

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2014

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2014-01-01

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327-332

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Academy of Management

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Published

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0065-0668

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2151-6561

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Philadelphia

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