The Foundations Of Henri Fayol’S Administrative
The foundations of Henri Fayol’s administrative
theory
Daniel A. Wren
David Ross Boyd Professor Emeritus and Curator, Harry W. Bass Business History
Collection, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Arthur G. Bedeian
Boyd Professor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
John D. Breeze
Independent Scholar and Business Owner/Manager, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
As management historians, we are seldom
able to trace the formative thinking of our
field’s major contributors, especially its
founders. McMahon and Carr (1999, p. 228)
noted the ``increasing distance between
students and scholars of today and the early
writers in the development of management
thought . . . The current generation of
students are reading less of the actual
writings of the early scholars and more what
those writing current texts are attributing to
[them].’’ At best, by examining contemporary
accounts, or in the limited instances where
autobiographies exist, we......
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