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"The Emergence Of New Organizational Forms And The Persistence Of
Heterogeneity In The Management Consulting Industry, 1886-2000
by Robert David and Wesley Sine
Whereas prior research in the neo-institutional tradition suggests
that organizational fields are subject to strong isomorphic pressures,
the management consulting industry exhibits considerable
heterogeneity. In particular, the industry is comprised of diverse
organizational forms, or models of consulting. In this paper, we
employ historical analysis to describe the emergence of these diverse
forms over the past century and to highlight the entrepreneurial
action undertaken in their promotion. Specifically, we identified four
models of management consulting, each based on a different
disciplinary foundation: the industrial research form, based on the
application of the natural sciences to industry; the administrative
science form, based on the application of administrative “principles”
to business organizations; the accounting form, which arose within
large accounting firms and was based on the expertise resident within
these existing organizations; and, finally, the information technology
form, which is rooted in the computer sciences and arose from the
convergence of information technology and organizational strategy."
From http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/mao/Entrep_Working_Papers.html
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Scientific Management - Frederick Winslow Taylor
"Scientific Management is also called Taylorism. The father of
Scientific Management is the American engineer Frederick W. Taylor
(1856 - 1915). It is scientific, because Taylor brought the scientific
experiment from natural science into management studies"
http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:J5gZHb9sRXwJ:www.uni-hildesheim.de/~psch0017/taylor.pdf+%22natural+science%22+model+applied+to+%22management+studies%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
More on Taylor:
Full text: The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) by Frederick
Winslow Taylor, M.E., Sc.D. Scanned by Eric Eldred (eldred@tiac.net)
http://melbecon.unimelb.edu.au/het/taylor/sciman.htm
Frederick Winslow Taylor
http://www.accel-team.com/scientific/scientific_02.html
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"Finally, and related to the above, Wolfram's discussion on the four
classes of behavior (chapter 6, A New Kind of Science) and how they
differ in the handling of information was also very interesting from
the perspective of management studies. Consider the following example
from inter-organizational research in marketing: a focal firm engaged
in the purposeful structuring of a distribution network could, if
concerned with the influence of its immediate environment on such
network, take into consideration the normative consequences of the
information-handling differences among sets of simple rules identified
by Wolfram and seek to mimic the set up that yields the desired
diffusion pattern.
Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, pp. 23-41, 231-254, 299-301,
363-399, 429-432, 737-753."
From http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:U4ayvjaiKUQJ:icg.harvard.edu/~soc273/Memos/Oct_02/Bertini.doc+influence+of+natural+sciences+%22management+studies%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Wolfram's book may be reviewed here (sample pages and tables of
contents included)
http://www.wolframscience.com/
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"Management's New Paradigms" by Peter F. Drucker, Forbes, October 5,
1998
http://216.239.33.104/search?q=cache:avTiBVqK4WcJ:www.xecu.net/schaller/management/drucker.doc+%22frederick+winslow+taylor%22+%22natural+science%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Review of Drucker's book
"Management Challenges for the 21st Century by Peter F. Drucker - A
Review ©Walter J. Geldart, M. Eng., M. Div. - September, 1999"
http://tap3x.net/EMBTI/j6drucker.html
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Complexity and Management:Moving From Fad To Firm Foundations by Steve
Maguire & Bill McKelvey
"But before we jump to what many view as softer approaches to
complexity, which by the way we feel could and should have a
significant role to play as complexity-inspired tools are applied in
the social sciences, were view harder approaches from various natural
science disciplines contributing to complexity science and related
organizational research areas."
From http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:feGa_lXDD_gJ:wdev.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/mgtwww/icrod/maguire%26mckelvey1999.pdf+%22natural+science%22+model+applied+to+%22management+studies%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
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STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT - Building Bridges between Sciences,
Engineering and Business Management edited by George Tesar (Umeå
University, Sweden), Sibdas Ghosh (Dominican University of California,
USA), Steven W Anderson & Tom Bramorski (University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA)
http://www.wspc.com.sg/books/business/p300.html
HUMAN SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT Integrating Knowledge, Management and Systems
by Milan Zeleny (Fordham University, USA)
"Human Systems Management is an important work that integrates
knowledge, management and systems into a unified world of thinking and
action in business, decision-making and economics. It presents a
modern synthesis of the fields of knowledge management, systems
science and human organization. A biological rather than mechanistic
perspective pervades the text. New and original ideas and approaches
are presented with the simplicity and clarity typical of the
well-known author."
http://www.wspc.com.sg/books/business/4929.html
From the same site are more books that may interest you at
http://www.wspc.com.sg/books/business/ds.shtml and
http://www.wspc.com.sg/books/business/omorms.shtml
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Organizational Behavior: Solutions for Management by Paul D. Sweeney,
University of Central Florida, Dean B. McFarlin, University of Dayton
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073659088/student_view0/chapter1/chapter_outline.html
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Historical Background of Organizational Behavior (prepared by
Professor Edward G. Wertheim, College of Business Administration,
Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115)
http://web.cba.neu.edu/~ewertheim/introd/history.htm
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Organizational Life Cycle
http://www.bus.ualberta.ca/rfield/Organizational%20Effectiveness,%20Structure,%20and%20Technology.htm
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Human and Organizational Behavior Modeling (HOBM) Technology
Assessment by Dr. Ted McClanahan, Dr. Jerry Feinberg, Dr. Patrick
Goalwin and Mr. Paul Blemberg
http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:P9wvtQD35zkJ:www.msiac.dmso.mil/hobm_documents/HOBM-Technical-Assessment.doc+applying+physics+in+organizational+behavior&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
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