THE RISE AND FALL OF MANAGEMENT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRACTICE, THEORY AND CONTEXT
Book ID/图书代码: 05230012B54484
English Summary/英文概要: Insight into today’s economic and financial problems comes, in this revealing book, from an understanding of how and why the practice and the teaching of management has developed as it has. Gordon Pearson, who has spent equal parts of his long career as a practising manager and a management educator, clarifies through rigorous historical review the difficult issues around management with which we struggle today, such as why management custom and practice so often lead to contravention of the law.
Pearson reviews how management became a practice and body of understanding, the development of its crucial role in economic progress, and then how its corruption came about as a result of malign theory, leading to the dominance of the bonus payment culture and short term deal-making that plague us today. Understanding management’s past, suggests Pearson, will help its improvement for the future. Contributing to that understanding, this challenging book sheds light on how management might be renewed and on the benign role it could play if freed from the restraints of inappropriate economic theory.
This book is not just a history or a sociological analysis of management. It gives a broad, practically informed, critical view of the subject that will be welcomed by any reader with a professional or an academic interest in practice, theory, and context.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 本书极具启迪作用,根据对管理实践和教育如何和为何如此演变的了解,阐述了其对当今经济和金融问题的见解。戈登•皮尔森的职业生涯可以被等分为担任执业经理和管理教育家。通过严密的历史回顾,他在书中阐明了如今我们仍与之抗争的管理难题,如为什么管理惯例和实践常引发违法行为。
皮尔森回顾了管理如何成为了实践和理解主体,以及管理在经济进步中日渐重要的发展过程,然后他又回顾了恶性理论如何引发了管理腐败,并造就了资金文化和短期交易的主体地位,而这些恶果至今仍困扰着我们。皮尔森指出,理解过去的管理将有助于改善未来的管理。这本极具挑战的书有助于理解过去的管理,它阐明了重建管理的方法。本书还指出,若管理不受限于不恰当的经济理论,就能发挥其良性作用。
本书不只是一本管理历史书或管理社会分析书。它对管理提出了广阔、实际和批判的观点,将受到专业人士或对管理实践、理论和环境有学术兴趣的读者的欢迎。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况:“戈登•皮尔斯的新作填补了一项重要空白。在讲述一段审慎且引人入胜的制度史的过程中,他驳倒了一些管理中普遍存在、却有害的谬论——如股东利益居于首位——并重申了管理的永恒真理。要想重塑未来的管理,我们必须了解管理如何发展、为何如此发展。这才是起点。”——西蒙•考尔金(《观察家报》管理编辑)
“本书提供了大量管理文献所缺乏的东西——即可读性。本书风格简洁、简单易学,作者创作了一本读来真正有趣的作品。
如果你想在探索管理发展历程的同时,了解解释详尽的经济理论背景知识,这本书必不可少。类似地,如果你不擅记忆构建经济理论的关键概念、及其与商务实践的关联,这本书非常值得一读……它完美地融合了历史和管理实务……我特别喜欢结语,它将本书描述为‘对过去进步和错误的盛大记事’。但基于历史,作者还介绍了可供管理者未来采用的现实建议。”——迈克•特纳•芬斯坦姆,来自e.Manager,一本英国行政管理杂志
“这是一本极具洞察力和挑战性的书,有助于我们理解管理理论和实践。它对组织生活的演变提出了重要的严厉批评——特别适应时代。戈登•皮尔斯的书将对管理领域产生重大影响。简单来说,它是所有管理研究者书架上的必备书籍。”——约翰•哈萨德,曼彻斯特商学院组织分析学教授
皮尔斯书写了一本极具启蒙性和可读性的作品,它描述了管理的实践、理论和环境:这是一本生动而令人振奋的作品,能让人们质问和反思自由资本市场的风气和道德。本书对商院研究生和商业实习生等来说,非常有用。——米海娜•克里曼,英国基尔大学管理学教授
“全球经济衰退意味着管理危机。就在这本可读性极强的书中,戈登•皮尔斯思考了大量自己的实践和学术经验,用来解释问题是什么和我们能做什么。对任何想了解商学院和会议室出了什么问题的人,这本书都能激发他们的思考。”——马丁•派克,莱斯大学管理学院组织文化学教授’
About the Author/作者介绍: 由于其第一学位是英格兰华威大学的管理科学学位,戈登•皮尔斯开创了一个独特的位置,即关注经济、行业理论对商务管理现实的积极和消极影响。他的工业线型职责包括大量管理职能以及综合管理和战略管理。他在兼并收购方面的极具专业经验,这为他的第一本书“战略折扣”打下了基础。该书批评了会计学的短期投资主义。 他随后在曼彻斯特商学院修得了战略、创新和文化的博士学位。他的学术投入,包括抬高基尔大学管理系和工程管理学硕士项目的地位,主要集中在批判分析理论对实践的影响。他极具挑战性的相关博客地址为www.gordonpearson.co.ukWith
With a first degree in management sciences from Warwick University, Gordon Pearson has carved out a distinctive position focusing on the good and bad impacts of economic and behavioural theory on the practical realities of business management. His industrial line responsibilities have included most management functions as well as general and strategic management. His specialist experience in mergers and acquisitions, were the basis of his first book, ’The Strategic Discount’, a critique of accounting’s short termism.
He subsequently completed a Ph.D. in strategy, innovation and culture at Manchester Business School. His academic inputs, which have included heading up the Department of Management and the MBA programmes at Keele University, are mainly focused on a critical analysis of theory’s impacts on practice. His related challenging blog site is at www.gordonpearson.co.uk.
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