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| Author: | Roper, M. |
| Title: | Masculinity and the biographical meanings of management theory: Lyndall Urwick and the making of scientific management in inter-war Britain |
| Journal: | Gender, Work and Organization
2001 : APR, VOL. 8:2, p.182-204 |
| Index terms: | GENDER BIOGRAPHY MANAGEMENT THEORY PSYCHOLOGY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article explores the biographical shaping of management theory. Using the British management theorist Lyndall Urwick (1891-1983) as a case study, it argues that existing understandings of the history of management studies are limited by their lack of attention to the emotional a priori of theory production. for men such as Frederick Taylor or Urwick, the work of composing management theory for a public audience was intimately connected to events and experiences in the private life. Management theories are not only historically, socially or discursively constructed, but can be read in terms of the evidence tehy provide about individual subjectivity. This article challenges that social determinism, first, by showing how Urwick's theories addressed issues of separation and intimacy, and second, by placing Urwick's work in the context of his relations with women. |
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