附註:Includes bibliographical references.
Abstracts & keywords; Introduction; Continuous improvement in the history of human resource management; The control of pensions; Human resource accounting; Improving employer-employee relationships; The role of economics and industrial relations in the development of the field of personnel/human resource management; Chester Barnard's ''executive'' and the knowledge-based firm; ''Playing by ear'' ... ''in an incessant din of reasons''; Juxtaposition of Chester I. Barnard and Frederick W. Taylor; Managing a riot; Chester Barnard: member of the ''e ́lite''?
摘要:It is my great pleasure to serve as a specialissue editor for this issue of The Journal ofManagement History in ManagementDecision. The historical context in whichmanagerial theory and practice have evolvedis too often overlooked. Academics, researchers and practitioners tend to forgetthe past, and too often overlook historicalpatterns of which today's theories and''innovations'' are but echoes. Conversely, toomuch history is written without an interestin revealing the cultural roots and patternsthat can inform and improve currentpractice. The historical context in whicheconomic and sociologica.