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A New History of (Sustainable) Management

In: The Past, Present and Future of Sustainable Management

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  • Stephen Cummings

    (Victoria University of Wellington)

  • Todd Bridgman

    (Victoria University of Wellington)

Abstract

Our counter-history has questioned assumed continuities and discontinuities that inform our historical understanding of Management and Sustainable Management: Taylor was not a miraculous break from the past, the adoption of his ideas was part of a broader age of conservation; Management did not evolve to support an industrial world view, but in opposition to it; Sustainable Management is not a new breakthrough, but a continuous concern since pre-modern times. Thinking differently in this way enables us to propose a new history: one where Sustainable Management is not an add-on to Management, but where they are one and the same. It is a new history linking indigenous approaches: Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, Brandeis, Mary Parker Follett and a diverse range of Management founders. In this way, sustainability can be seen at the core of Management: a key point of origin defining a different fundamental good for Management in the present and for the future.

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  • Stephen Cummings & Todd Bridgman, 2021. "A New History of (Sustainable) Management," Springer Books, in: The Past, Present and Future of Sustainable Management, chapter 0, pages 105-144, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-71076-7_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71076-7_4
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