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The purpose of this chapter is to recap the various debates about management history by considering the roles of traditional history, postmodernism, radical history, and ANTi-history. I also track the development of various myths and discuss the competing strengths and weaknesses of the various models. My purpose is to provide a discussion of the models – not to offer judgment but a reasoned appraisal for the purpose of edification and debate.
I would like to acknowledge Emerald Publishers who consented to allow me to reproduce this section and the one in postmodernism. It appeared in a slight different form in as Muldoon 2019.
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Muldoon, J. (2020). Conflicting Visions: A Recap About the Debates Within Management History. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Management History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62348-1_5-2
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