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Toward Systematic Management: Alexander Hamilton Church

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Dominated as it is by the powerful personality of Frederick W. Taylor, the history of scientific management thought has neglected important figures like Alexander Hamilton Church. Professor Jelinek shows that whereas Taylor's contribution was to move thinking down one “level of abstraction” to concrete shop operations, Church moved it up one level to construct a pattern of observations useful for management planning and evaluation.

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  • Jelinek, Mariann, 1980. "Toward Systematic Management: Alexander Hamilton Church," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 54(1), pages 63-79, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:buhirw:v:54:y:1980:i:01:p:63-79_06
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    1. JoAnne Yates, 1991. "Investing in Information: Supply and Demand Forces in the Use of Information in American Firms, 1850-1920," NBER Chapters, in: Inside the Business Enterprise: Historical Perspectives on the Use of Information, pages 117-160, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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