Belated Recognition for Work Flow Entrepreneurs: A Case of Selective Perception and Amnesia in Management Thought
研究了二战后现场研究中已认识到的工作流创业原则,到1970年代却被忽视,原因在于科学管理的深层假设和商学院追求学术合法性而牺牲实践,导致组织视角扭曲。
Recent trends, such as reengineering, require work flow entrepreneurship. Important principles about these practices were recognized in post-World War II field research, but by the 1970s this work suffered neglect. Amnesia was caused by deeply held assumptions of scientific management, and by a search within business schools for academic legitimacy at the expense of praxis, which skewed the perspectives with which organizations were viewed.