Lyndall Urwick, Management Pioneer. A biography
Details:
- Author(s) Brech, Edward F L, Andrew Thomson & John F Wilson
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2010
- Pages 240pp; illus
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Management techniques
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly work 'written primarily as a contribution to the study of management history and the role of people within it, of which Urwick himself was one of the first and most influential exponents'. The work is based on an initial manuscript of Edward Brech, sometime personal assistant to Urwick, who died in 2006, which was shortened for publication. Chapters include: 'Early life, the First World War and glovemaking'; 'Rowntree's [ie Rowntree & Co Ltd, York, 1922-28]'; 'The International Management Institute [1928-34]'; 'Writings in the interwar period'; 'Urwick Orr & Partners'; 'Wartime'; 'British management developments from the 1940s'; 'A mission at large'; 'Later writings'; 'An evaluation'