Fayol: from experience to theory
Donald Reid
(Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA)
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Abstract
Draws extensively on the unpublished papers of Henri Fayol to show how his experiences as an engineer, director and CEO for Commentry Fourchambault provided the basis for the ideas presented in his classic Administration Industrielle et Générale (1916). Emphasizes Fayol′s experiences managing coal miners; his direction of a firm facing crisis owing to depletion of its primary assets (coal and ore deposits); and his struggle to assert the primacy of the CEO in dealings with the company board of directors.
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Citation
Reid, D. (1995), "Fayol: from experience to theory", Journal of Management History (Archive), Vol. 1 No. 3, pp. 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1108/13552529510095134
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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