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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Writers such as Elton Mayo, Mary Parker Follett, Chester Barnard, Max Weber, and Chris Argyris imported theories from other fields (sociology and psychology) to apply to management. Operations Organizational culture' Peter Drucker, one of the first management specialists to achieve guru status, was representative of this era.