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Karol Adamiecki and the Historiographical Paradox of the Origin of Management
Karol Adamiecki and the Historiographical Paradox of the Origin of Management

Author(s): Tomasz Ochinowski
Contributor(s): Agata Ostrowska (Translator)
Subject(s): Methodology and research technology, Management and complex organizations, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Karol Adamiecki; organizational historiography; historiographical paradox;

Summary/Abstract: This article is a contribution to studies in the organizational historiography, a discipline tasked with studying the organizational past by using intellectual tools of the history of historiography. The article discusses in detail the proposal to treat the historical paradox regarding Karol Adamiecki’s role in the inception of management studies as a historiographical paradox.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 103-113
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English