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Publication date: 1 September 1999

Management history gurus of the 1990s: Their lives, their contributions

Jane Whitney Gibson, Richard M. Hodgetts and Jorge M. Herrera

This paper discusses the lives and contributions of five key members of the Management History Division: Arthur G. Bedeian; Alfred A. Bolton; James C. Worthy (now…

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This paper discusses the lives and contributions of five key members of the Management History Division: Arthur G. Bedeian; Alfred A. Bolton; James C. Worthy (now deceased); Charles D. Wrege; and Daniel A. Wren. Each has proved himself a teacher and intellectual leader in matters of fundamental concern to management history.

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Journal of Management History, vol. 5 no. 6
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/13552529910288154
ISSN: 1355-252X

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  • Management history
  • Leaders

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Publication date: 2 September 2014

The life and times of a senior scholar: an interview with Arthur Bedeian

Karl Moore

– The purpose of this paper is to interview a senior scholar to get his/her perspectives on the field, it’s history and future.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to interview a senior scholar to get his/her perspectives on the field, it’s history and future.

Design/methodology/approach

A semi-structured in-depth interview was conducted.

Research limitations/implications

It is one person’s personal views, albeit, a person with very considerable success in the field of business studies.

Social implications

The interview reflects the changes in business schools over the interviewee’s decades of experience.

Originality/value

The person being interviewed is a unique individual.

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Journal of Management History, vol. 20 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JMH-05-2014-0118
ISSN: 1751-1348

Keywords

  • Business schools
  • Management history
  • Business History
  • Academia
  • Interview
  • Arthur G. Bedeian

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Publication date: 11 April 2016

A note on the aphorism “there is nothing as practical as a good theory”

Arthur G. Bedeian

The purpose of this paper is to consider one inaccuracy in the written record of our discipline. That is, how the aphorism “There is nothing as practical as a good theory”…

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The purpose of this paper is to consider one inaccuracy in the written record of our discipline. That is, how the aphorism “There is nothing as practical as a good theory” came to be regarded as Kurt Lewin’s signature saying.

Design/methodology/approach

Primary and secondary sources were used in the research.

Findings

By tracing the history of the above-captioned aphorism back through its use by the General Electric Company in the 1920s to Friedrich W. Dörpfeld’s 1873 book Grundlinien einer Theorie des Lehrplans, zunächst der Volks- und Mittelschule, it can confidently be concluded that it did not originate with Lewin.

Practical Implications

Those who study history soon become aware that inaccuracies in the written record are commonplace. Indeed, assuring historical accuracy has been a challenge confronted by historians for centuries.

Originality/value

The widespread acceptance of Lewin as the originator of the referenced aphorism underscores the observation that received knowledge is often wrong. It also provides one more illustration that, whatever their origin, once errors of attribution appear in print, they become diffused and amplified, taking on a life of their own as they are transmitted from generation to generation.

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Journal of Management History, vol. 22 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JMH-01-2016-0004
ISSN: 1751-1348

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  • Friedrich W. Dörpfeld, G. Stanley Hall
  • Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Kurt Lewin

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Publication date: 10 April 2009

The Übermensch meets the “One Best Way”: Barbara S. Burks, the Gilbreth family, and the eugenics movement

Arthur G. Bedeian and Shannon G. Taylor

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the eugenic beliefs of behavioral geneticist Barbara S. Burks and scientific‐management pioneers B. Frank and Lillian M…

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The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the eugenic beliefs of behavioral geneticist Barbara S. Burks and scientific‐management pioneers B. Frank and Lillian M. Moeller Gilbreth.

Design/methodology/approach

Drawing on personal communications with the Gilbreths' daughter, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, and archival records, this paper clarifies the relationship between Barbara S. Burks and the Gilbreth family.

Findings

This research establishes that the unnamed psychologist described in an unflattering manner in the best‐selling book on the Gilbreth family, Cheaper by the Dozen, was not Barbara S. Burks.

Originality/value

Based on information that only Ernestine Gilbreth Carey could have provided, this paper sets the record straight regarding the Gilbreths' involvement with eugenicist Barbara S. Burks.

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Journal of Management History, vol. 15 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/17511340910943831
ISSN: 1751-1348

Keywords

  • Genetics
  • Genetic engineering
  • Scientific management

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Publication date: 1 March 1990

Characteristics of Professionals in Public Accounting Firms

Janet L. Colbert, Kevin W. Mossholder and Arthur G. Bedeian

Personnel selection and professional satisfaction can be affectedby the “goodness of fit” between individual certified publicaccountants and the size of division in which…

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Personnel selection and professional satisfaction can be affected by the “goodness of fit” between individual certified public accountants and the size of division in which they work. A US survey of: individual personal characteristics; perceived work environment; and interaction between individual and organisation is reviewed.

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Managerial Auditing Journal, vol. 5 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/02686909010006535
ISSN: 0268-6902

Keywords

  • Job satisfaction
  • Organizations
  • Personality measurement
  • Recruitment
  • Surveys
  • USA

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Publication date: 1 March 1987

Parental Leave: New Challenge in the U.S. Workplace

Richard Kalwa and Arthur G. Bedeian

Elizabeth Walker is one of today's career women who has received increasing media attention over the last decade.

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Elizabeth Walker is one of today's career women who has received increasing media attention over the last decade.

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Equal Opportunities International, vol. 6 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb010468
ISSN: 0261-0159

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Publication date: 1 March 2004

The Taylorization of Lenin: rhetoric or reality?

Daniel A. Wren and Arthur G. Bedeian

Lenin advocated “Taylorization” (i.e. scientific management), to rebuild post‐revolutionary Russia's economy. The evidence, however, indicates that Lenin's advocacy caused…

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Lenin advocated “Taylorization” (i.e. scientific management), to rebuild post‐revolutionary Russia's economy. The evidence, however, indicates that Lenin's advocacy caused conflict within the communist party, and scientific management was rarely implemented successfully. Noting a rhetoric‐reality gap, the paper explains the difference between Lenin's advocacy and actual practice. Lenin wished to convey the message that his regime was progressive, using the latest management techniques. Rather than following scientific management precepts, pressure was placed on Soviet workers to increase productivity without improving work methods. The paper's conclusion is that Lenin's advocacy of scientific management was a leader's rhetoric, a political expediency, and it would be misleading to connect scientific management with the practice of management in post‐revolutionary Russia.

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International Journal of Social Economics, vol. 31 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/03068290410518265
ISSN: 0306-8293

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  • Taylorism
  • Scientific management
  • Russia

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Publication date: 1 April 1986

Individual Propensities for Emotional Supportiveness within a Dual Career Context: Work and Non‐work Reactions

Arthur G. Bedeian, Kevin W. Mossholder and John Touliatos

One challenge increasingly arising in individuals' personal lives is balancing life style and career to maintain a satisfactory long‐term relationship with a spouse who…

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One challenge increasingly arising in individuals' personal lives is balancing life style and career to maintain a satisfactory long‐term relationship with a spouse who also has a career. According to the Bureau of Census, there are more than 26 million married women in the workforce. By 1982 over half of all married women were employed outside the home, and fewer than 15 per cent of all US households acknowledged the father as sole wage earner and the mother as full‐time homemaker. The unprecedented increase in the number of dual career families (from 9.3 million in 1950 to over 13.4 million in 1960, and 26.8 million in 1984) suggests a need to know more about the demands facing such households. Relatively few studies have investigated the relationships of work and non‐work factors within the two provider or dual career family context. Moreover, much of the existing research on dual careers is lacking in methodological rigour.

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International Journal of Manpower, vol. 7 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb045073
ISSN: 0143-7720

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Publication date: 12 January 2010

Obituary: William B. Wolf (1920-2009)

Arthur G. Bedeian

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Journal of Management History, vol. 16 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/jmh.2010.15816aaf.001
ISSN: 1751-1348

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Publication date: 1 March 1987

An Interactionist Perspective on Organisational Adaptation

Arthur G. Bedeian

Existing theory is extended to develop a more comprehensive typology of organisational adaptation, from an interactionist perspective. Social learning theory is drawn on…

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Existing theory is extended to develop a more comprehensive typology of organisational adaptation, from an interactionist perspective. Social learning theory is drawn on to present a reciprocal model stressing the continuous, multi‐directional interaction between strategic choice, environment and an organisation's behaviour.

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Leadership & Organization Development Journal, vol. 8 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb053619
ISSN: 0143-7739

Keywords

  • Environment
  • Organisational Change
  • Strategy

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