An Institutional Economic Reconstruction of Scientific Management: On the Lost Theoretical Logic of Taylorism
重新解读泰勒的科学管理,指出其蕴含制度经济学思想,如资本冲突、激励解决和互利共赢,并批评其“真诚合作”概念偏离了自身对工人机会主义的经济学假设。
I argue that Taylor was a pioneer in theorizing principles of institutional economics, and I challenge conventional preconceptions that scientific management is theoretically unsophisticated and aimed at disadvantaging certain organization members. I identify in Taylor's writings the institutional economic ideas of dilemmatic interaction conflict regarding capital contributions and capital distributions, conflict resolution through incentives management, mutual gains as the outcome of conflict resolution, and the model of economic man, and I suggest that Taylor's behavioral concept of hearty cooperation deviated from the economic principles he had espoused regarding worker opportunism.