Isabella Beeton: Management as "Everything in its Place" |
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| Authors: | Robin Wensley |
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| Institution: | Robin Wensley is Professor of Strategic Management and Marketing at Warwick Business School, where he was Chairman until August 1994. |
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| Abstract: | This article describes the precepts set out in one of the most successful books on management ever written, Mrs Beeton's 'Book of Household Management'. It then uses her work to throw light on two modern management debates: the relationship between strategic and operations management; and order/bureaucracy as against adaptability/chaos. |
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