A New Philosophy of Management: Shell Revisited

In the early 1970s an account was published of how social scientists, in the mid 1960s, had worked with senior management of a major British oil refining company to formulate a new philosophy of management. In this paper we seek to re‐examine the success of this project in the light of recent data, and to briefly explore the consequences of our analysis for social scientists concerned with strategies for organisational change.