1 Introduction The Enduring Significance of In Search of Excellence
On October 15 1982, Tom Peters and Robert Waterman (1982) published In Search of Excellence.1 This book has, Kiechel (2010) suggests, become iconic. It offers, he advises, perhaps the closest thing that the field of management studies has to an overarching organizing paradigm.
The book you now hold in your hands has been timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the first publication of this iconic text. It has been designed to offer an historical account of the development of In Search of Excellence. In addition it has been arranged to offer a distinctive, critical review of its core claims, orientations and, perhaps uniquely, its ...
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