دانلود کتاب Management Ideas: A Short History of Business Administration

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Preface Contents Part I: Before the Institutionalization of Business Administration as a Science Chapter 1: Early Devices and Techniques in Western Asia and the Near East 1.1 Before Script and Numbers in Iraq 1.2 Early Bookkeeping in the Near East 1.3 Later Developments in India 1.4 Hebrew and Islamic Experiences Traveling to Europe Chapter 2: Management of Homes, Estates, and Trade in Europe Until the Middle Ages 2.1 Management Ideas by Greek Philosophers 2.2 Management Ideas by Political Minds in the Roman Empire 2.3 Management Ideas by Theologians in Central Europe in the Middle Ages 2.4 Summarizing Observations Chapter 3: The Age of Enlightenment and Beyond in Europe 3.1 Methodological Advancement: Induction from Experiments 3.2 The Problem of Compound Interest Solved by Logic 3.3 Comprehensive Books for Merchants 3.4 First Ideas on Business Administration as an Academic Discipline Chapter 4: Three Streams of Knowledge Generation in Nineteenth-Century Europe 4.1 The Normative Approach 4.2 The Empirical-Realistic Approach 4.3 Theoretical Approaches 4.4 Interim Results Part II: Criteria for Business Administration as a Science Chapter 5: Indicators of a Science and Models of Its Development 5.1 Meanings of Science from Different Perspectives 5.2 The Existence of Essential Questions as a Characteristic of a Science 5.2.1 Four Authors on Important Questions 5.2.2 What Is a Firm? 5.2.3 Why Do Firms Exist? 5.2.4 Who Are the Entrepreneurs, and Why Can They Exist? 5.2.5 Interim Result 5.3 Systematic Procedures to Develop New Knowledge: Controlling the Toolbox 5.3.1 Value Judgments 5.3.2 Falsifiability 5.3.3 Scientific Control and its Disregard 5.3.4 Interim Results 5.4 Preservation of Knowledge or the Cost of Forgetting 5.4.1 The General Problem 5.4.2 Loss of Knowledge in Business Administration 5.4.3 Interim Results Chapter 6: Scientific Progress in General and in Business Administration 6.1 The Individual 6.2 The Discipline 6.3 Scientific Advance by Solving Puzzles 6.4 A Model for Business Administration? 6.5 Purposes of Science Chapter 7: Emerging Scientific Infrastructure for Business Administration 7.1 Starting Business Schools 7.2 Publications for the Discipline 7.3 Professional Associations to Serve Scientific Advances Part III: The Institutionalized Science Chapter 8: In Search of an Objective Function and a Name 8.1 Ideological Controversies in Germany 8.2 Pragmatic Solutions in the USA Chapter 9: Decline Under Political Influences and Two New Beginnings: The Cases of Germany 9.1 The Period 1933-1945 9.1.1 The Human Aspects 9.1.2 Mainstream Business Administration 9.1.3 New Ideas in Niches 9.2 Business Administration in the German Democratic Republic 9.3 Gutenberg´s Approach in the Federal Republic of Germany 9.3.1 A Sketch of the Post-War Situation 9.3.2 New Paradigms Chapter 10: Sketches on Developing Specializations 10.1 Modes of Specialization 10.2 Examples of Functional Specializations 10.2.1 Accounting 10.2.2 Human Resources and Organization 10.2.3 From Sales Management to Marketing 10.2.4 Capital Budgeting and Finance 10.3 Cross-functional Specializations 10.3.1 Research and Innovation Management 10.3.2 Specialization by Phase: Firm Growth 10.4 Observations on Specializations Part IV: Limitations, Further Needs and Lessons Learned Chapter 11: Limitations and Further Needs Chapter 12: Lessons Learned: Reasons for Histories of Management Ideas Index