This exploration of management history focuses on mass entertainment media to determine the history of the efficiency expert in popular culture. It reviews the history of the image of the efficiency expert in film and on American‐produced television programs. The review shows that this...

Purpose – Histories of American public administration during the Progressive era (1890‐1920) tend to highlight the positive contributions of its major founders, skimming lightly over nativist, anti‐democratic and racial writings. The purpose of this paper is to broaden the given narrative...

In 1819, the US Supreme Court ruled in Dartmouth v. Woodward that Dartmouth College, even though originally chartered by government, was legally akin to a private corporation. This landmark decision was the founding legal document of what has become the American private nonprofit sector. While...

1 Introduction -- 2 Government public relations: what is it good for? -- 3 Media relations -- 4 Public information campaigns -- 5 Crisis communication challenges in the public sector -- 6 Strategic communication planning in the digital age -- 7 Harnessing social media effectively on behalf of...