... responsibility presumes decentralization: “Common citizenship requires adherence to common principles, that is, common aims and beliefs. But practices should have no more uniformity than the concrete task requires” (Drucker, 1954, p. 223). © MCB UP Limited 2000 Management history Government...

.... This development of an operational code hopefully will add critically important dimensions and synergy to the many biographical, historical, and eulogistic materials on Deming scattered in various journals, archives, and libraries. Deming Management history Productivity © MCB UP Limited 1999...

...Charles D. Wrege; Regina A. Greenwood; Sakae Hata Management history contains many unsolved mysteries. In this paper four categories of mysteries are discussed, along with methodologies that have proved useful in solving such mysteries. Examples of the successful use of the outlined methodologies...

...Jane Whitney Gibson; Richard M. Hodgetts; 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 deceased); Charles D. Wrege; and Daniel A. Wren. Each has proved himself...

... Elenbaas, the majority stakeholder. Typically, D.J. completed his tasks by noon and spent the remainder of the day doing “other things,” such as studying accounting and pursuing his interest in efficiency studies (Propst, 1978, p. 1). © MCB UP Limited 1999 Management history Emergent strategy...

... base. We propose an important initial step toward achieving a more sympathetic capitalism, the “No‐Harm Proviso”, and briefly speculate on its implementation. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Globalization Management history Moral responsibility Philosophy We each live in a nation and a world...