6 Orthodoxy
Establishing and Defending Classic Management History
Introduction
While the number of publications on management history and the history of management thought, in particular those written by academics, increased quite significantly during the first two decades after World War II, their place within the expanding universe of management research still appeared rather tenuous. This was at least the opinion of some of the insiders, with Jenks (1960: 447), for instance, characterizing management history as a “neglected field”. Writing five years later, Massie (1965: 387) started his chapter in James March’s Handbook of Organizations by stating that “management thought, as an identifiable and separate field of study, is relatively immature”. ...
