The age of heretics: a history of the radical thinkers who reinvented corporate management

INDICE: Foreword by Warren Bennis. Preface by Steven Wheeler and Walter McFarland. Introduction. 1. Monastics: Corporate Culture and Its Discontents, 1945 to Today. 2. Pelagians: National Training Laboratories, 1947-1962. 3. Reformists: Workplace Redesign at Procter and Gamble and the Gaines Dog Food Plant in Topeka, 1961-1973. 4. Protesters: Saul Alinsky, FIGHTON, Campaign GM, and the Shareholder Activism Movement, 1964-1971. 5. Mystics: Royal Dutch/Shell's Scenario Planners, 1967-1973. 6. Lovers of Faith and Reason: Heretical Engineersat Stanford Research Institute and MIT, 1955-1971. 7. Parzival's Dilemma: Edie Seashore, Chris Argyris, and Warren Bennis, 1959-1979. 8. Millenarians: Erewhon, the SRI Futures Group, Herman Kahn, Royal Dutch/Shell, and Amory Lovins, 1968-1979. 9. The Rapids: Hayes and Abernathy, Tom Peters, W. Edwards Deming, the Creators of GE Workout, and Other Synthesizers of Management Change, 1974-1982. Bibliography. Notes. Acknowledgments. About the Author. Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-19070-8
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 432
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés