James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution, and the development of management theory in post-war America

Management and Organizational History

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 411-423

  McLaren, Patricia Genoe ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

capitalism; class; context; managers; New Deal

Indexed keywords

EID: 80555138874     PISSN: 17449359     EISSN: 17449367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1744935911425824     Document Type: Article

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