Research Catalog

Title

Chester I. Barnard and the guardians of the managerial state / William G. Scott.

Author

Scott, William G.

Publication

Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, ©1992.

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Details

Description

xvii, 233 pages : portraits; 24 cm

Summary

This book provides the first critical analysis of Chester Barnard's ideology - an ideology that is now fundamental to the orthodox beliefs of the modern managerial class. Over fifty years in his path-breaking Functions of the Executive, Barnard wrote about the moral authority of the corporate executive elite to govern the emerging managerial state. Scott reexamines Barnard's influential arguments in the light of changing times. -- book jacket.

Subject

• Barnard, Chester I., 1886-1961
• Barnard, Chester Irving 1886-1961
• Barnard, Chester Irving
• Functions of the executive (Barnard, Chester I.)
• Executives
• Management
• Industrial sociology
• management
• Management
• Wirtschaftstheorie
• Organisatiekunde
• USA
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-224) and index.

Contents

Introduction: The Voice of the New Managerial State -- 1. The Managerial Age -- 2. The Management Revolution -- 3. Barnard's Harvard Circle -- 4. The "Empirical" Barnard: A Biographical Sketch -- 5. Barnard's Intellectual Debts and His Epistemology of the Social Sciences -- 6. The Search for Behavioral Control: The Individual and the Small Group -- 7. Engineering Consent in Formal Organizations -- 8. The Leadership Attributes of the Management Elite -- 9. The Moral Obligations of the Elite -- 10. The New Order of National Power and Organizational Governance -- 11. The Exhaustion of Managerialism -- Epilogue: The Management of Crisis and Tribulation.

ISBN

• 0700605509
• 9780700605507

LCCN

92009978

OCLC

• ocm25631903
• 25631903
• SCSB-1968150

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library