1. History of Management Studies as a Field Elena Raviola Foundations in Management Lecture 2

2. WHEN WAS MANAGEMENT BORN?

3. An historical view Big efforts in Ancient Times – The Egyptians – The Romans – The Vikings In the Middle Age – Organizing agriculture

4. …and then came: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION – From the second half of 1700 in England – In 1800 in central Europe – At the end of 1800 in Southern Europé Emerging thinkers – Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations – Karl Marx: The Capital

5. 1900 Scientific Management (Taylor) Bureaucracy (Weber) Administration theory (Fayol) Fordism Old Institutional Theory (Selznick) System theory and socio- technical systems Decision theory (Simon & March) Contingency theory Strategy Agency theory Transaction costs (Williamson) Organizing (Weick) 1910 1920 1940 1950 1960 1970 Adapted from Eriksson-Zetterquist et al., 2005 Hawthorne studies and human relations

6. 19802015 Four main contemporary ”turns” and their roots New institutionalism Old institutionalism Bureaucracy System theory Practice theory Sociology of practice Organizing Socio-technical systems Organizing ANT and the material turn Cultural turn Ethnomethodology Weber Organizing Old institutionalism