Skip Navigation



Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on May 28, 2007
Enterprise and Society, doi:10.1093/es/khm037
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
8/2/439    most recent
khm037v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Booth, A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

John F. Wilson and Andrew W. Thomson. The Making of Modern Management: British Management in Historical Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xvii + 297 pp. ISBN 0-19-926158-X, $90.00.

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

This rather uneven history of British management is the product of deep and extensive reading of the secondary literature, which is sometimes extremely effective, but also gives a tendentious and misleading account in some areas. The book begins with something approaching an apologia for omissions (most managerial functions other than labor, marketing and finance; managers in the primary and much of the tertiary sectors; small and medium enterprise; key aspects of the external environment—notably state-industry and industry-finance . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Alan Booth

University of Exeter in Cornwall, Canada


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?