Citation
(2009), "Special issue on celebrating the lives and works of the management pioneers", Journal of Management History, Vol. 15 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/jmh.2009.15815baa.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2009, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Special issue on celebrating the lives and works of the management pioneers
Article Type: Call for papers From: Journal of Management History, Volume 15, Issue 2
Guest Editor: Joyce Thompson Heames, West Virginia University
Over 30 years ago, during the USA’s bicentennial year, Daniel Wren and Robert Hay accepted the call from the Academy of Management to assess on its behalf the most outstanding contributors to ‘‘American business and management thought and practice’’ between the years 1774 and 1974 (Wren and Hay, 1977, p. 471). They identified 20 top contributors. In 2007, a replication and extension of their study were undertaken, including management pioneers from across the globe. This study identified a ‘‘top ten’’, who left their footprints on the landscape of management thought and practice:
1. Frederick Taylor;2. Max Weber;3. Chester Barnard;4. Peter Drucker;5. Henri Fayol;6. Adam Smith;7. Herbert Simon;8. Alfred Chandler;9. Joseph Schumpeter; and10. Alfred Sloan.
Our goal for this special issue of the Journal of Management History is to celebrate the contributions of this group, and firmly instil them in the scholarly institutional memory (cf. Coffey and Hoffman, 2003; Van Fleet and Wren, 2005), with an article about each for the special issue. Your submission should include a short biography and a consideration of how/why these scholars made such a lasting impact on business and management thought, practice, theory, and philosophy.
Electronic submissions, using http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jmh are due no later than 30 June 2009. Contributors should follow the manuscript requirements and author guidelines provided at: www.emeraldinsight.com/jmh.htm and in the back of each issue of the Journal of Management History.
For enquiries about the special issue, please write to the Guest Editor: Joyce Thompson Heames (joyce.heames@mail.wvu.edu)
References
Coffey, J.W. and Hoffman, R.R. (2003), ‘‘Knowledge modeling for the preservation of institutional memory’’, Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 38-52.
Van Fleet, D.D. and Wren, D.A. (2005), ‘‘Teaching history in business schools: 1982-2003’’, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 44-56.
Wren, D.A. and Hay, R.D. (1977), ‘‘Management historians and business historians: differing perceptions of pioneer contributions’’, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 20 No. 3, pp. 470-6.