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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Townes, and Henry L. 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. His book Concept of the Corporation , published in 1946, was a direct response to Alfred P.