Burnes, Bernard; Cooke, Bill - In: Business History 55 (2013) 5, pp. 768-789
The management field 'Organization Development' (OD), is said to have been invented in the mid-1950s in the USA. Some contribution post-1958 by the UK Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR), and to a minor extent, in its World War II 'group-relations' work is acknowledged. Otherwise, OD...