...Blanche Segrestin; Andrew Johnston; Armand Hatchuel Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contrast the historical rise of the managerial function and its reception in law. It thus contributes to the debates on the separation of ownership and control, by showing that managers were never...

...Pekka Varje; Jussi Turtiainen; Ari Väänänen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the historical emergence of psychological management in Finnish working life from the viewpoint of recruitment process by examining the changing qualities of the ideal manager in Finland in the post‐Second...

...Patricia Genoe McLaren; Albert J. Mills Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the idea that the ideal manager is a social construct that is a product of the context within which it exists. The context chosen to illustrate this idea is that of the first two decades of the Cold War (1945...

... management issues, I searched for additional films meeting the above two criteria. Movies that dealt in an allegorical manner with organizational life – organized crime and science fiction movies, for example – were not included in the sample. Earlier drafts of the paper were presented a various...