Llicenciatura en Administració i Direcció d'Empreses (3323)
Llicenciatura en Economia (3322)

Història del Pensament Empresarial(13075) 

Tema 1

Introduction. Overview of the course and its requirements.

Tema 2

Concepts: Management Thought and Management Practice.
Lectures
BARLEY, Stephen R.; KUNDA, Gideon. "Design and Devotion: Surges of Rational and Normative Ideologies in Managerial Discourse". Administrative Science Quarterly, 37. 1992. Pàg. 363-399.
CEMP. The Creation of European Management Practice. A Research Programme Supported by the European Union (TSER Contract SOE1-CT97-1072), Final Report. Desembre del 2001. Cap. 3.3.1: "Co-evolution of Management Practice with Academia, Media and Consulting" (cf. www.fek.uu.se/cemp).

Tema 3

Review: The Evolution of Business Organizations.
Lectures
CHANDLER, Alfred D. "The Enduring Logic of Industrial Success". Harvard Business Review, 68/2. Març-Abril de 1990. Pàg. 130-140.
KOGUT, Bruce; Parkinson, David. "The Diffusion of American Organizing Principles to Europe". A: Kogut, B. (ed.). Country Competitiveness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pàg. 179-202.

Tema 4

Early Thinkers on Capitalist Organisation: Smith and Marx.
Lectures
SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Oxford, 1976. Vol. I. Cap. I: "Of the Division of Labour".

Tema 5

Pioneering Management Thinkers: Taylor and Fayol.
Lectures
URWICK, Lyndall F.; BRECH, E. F. L. The Making of Scientific Management. Londres, 1945. Vol. I: Thirteen Pioneers. Cap. 4: "Henri Fayol".

Tema 6

Examining the Origins of Capitalism and Authority: Weber.

Tema 7

The Human Element: Mayo, Herzberg, McGregor et al.

Tema 8

The Role of Entrepreneurs: Schumpeter and Penrose.
Lectures
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Nova York: Harper & Brothers, 1942. Cap. VII ("The Process of Creative Destruction") i XII ("Crumbling Walls").

Tema 9

The Corporate Manager: Sloan and Chandler.

Tema 10

The Role of Managers in Society: Drucker.
Lectures
DRUCKER, Peter F. The Practice of Management. 1a. ed. Nova York, 1954. Cap. 1 i 2.

Tema 11

What Managers Actually Do: Mintzberg and Handy.
Lectures
MINTZBERG, Henry. "The Manager’s Job: Folklore and Fact". Harvard Business Review, Març-Abril de 1990. (First published 1975). Pàg. 163-176.

Tema 12

From the American to the Japanese Model.
Lectures
WOMACK, James P. i d’altres. The Machine That Changed the World. Nova York: Rawson Associates, 1990. Cap. 3: "The Rise of Lean Production".

Tema 13

New Departures: From Structure to Process: Hammer et al.
Lectures
HAMMER, Michael. "Reengineering Work: Don’t Automate, Obliterate". Harvard Business Review, Juliol-Agost de 1990. Pàg. 104-112.

Tema 14

The Management Theory Industry: Overview.
Lectures
MICKLETHWAITE, John; WOOLDRIDGE, Adrian. The Witch Doctors. What the management gurus are saying, why it matters and how to make sense of it. Londres: Heinemann, 1996. Cap. 2.

Tema 15

Management Gurus.
Lectures
CLARK, Timothy; SALAMAN, G. "Telling tales: Management gurus’ narratives and the construction of managerial identity". Journal of Management Studies, 35, 2. 1998. Pàg. 137-161.
CLARK, Timothy; GREATBATCH, David. "Collaborative relationships in the creation and fashioning of management ideas: gurus, editors and managers". A: KIPPING, M.; ENGWALL, L. (eds.). Management Consulting. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pàg. 129-145.

Tema 16

Business Education.
Lectures
ENGWALL, Lars; ZAMAGNI, Vera. "Introduction". A: ENGWALL, L.; ZAMAGNI, V. (eds.). Management Education in Historical Perspective. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. Pàg. 1-18.

Tema 17

Management Consulting: Evolution.
Lectures
KIPPING, Matthias. "Trapped in Their Wave: The Evolution of Management Consultancies". A: CLARK, T.; FINCHAM, R. (eds.). Critical Consulting. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. Pàg. 28-49.
Video
Masters of the Universe 1: The Outsiders.

Tema 18

Management Consulting: Knowledge Management.
Lectures
HANSEN, Morten T.; NOHRIA, Nitin; TIERNEY, Thomas. "What’s your strategy for managing knowledge". Harvard Business Review, Març-Abril de 1999. Pàg. 106-116.
Case Study
McKinsey & Company: Managing Knowledge and Learning. Harvard Business School, 1996. (Revised 15 December 1997). (Ref. 9-396-357).

Tema 19

Management Consulting: Organisation.
Lectures
MAISTER, David H. "Balancing the Professional Service Firm". Sloan Management Review, tardor de 1982. Pàg. 15-29. (Reprinted in idem. Managing the Professional Service Firm. Nova York: The Free Press, 1993. Cap. 1).

Tema 20

Management Consulting and Managers.
Lectures
KIESER, Alfred. "Managers as Marionettes? Using Fashion Theories to Explain the Success of Consultancies". A: KIPPING, M.; ENGWALL, L. (eds.). Management Consulting. Oxford, 2002. Pàg. 167-183.

For links to the websites of all the major consultancies and other useful information on the industry see: www.gsb.uchicago.edu/student/mcg/pages/industry.html.

Bibliografia

DONKIN, Richard. Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Evolution of Work. Londres, 2001.
HUCZYNSKI, Andrzeij A. Management Gurus. Londres: Routledge, 1993.
PUGH, Derek S.; HICKSON, David J. Great Writers on Organizations. Londres: Dartmouth, 1993.
WREN, Daniel; GREENWOOD, Ronald G. Management Innovators. Nova York, 1998.