Using archival evidence relating to Albright & Wilson (A&W), this article challenges the validity of Chandler's view, based mainly on the study of secondary sources, that personal capitalism retarded the development of more advanced forms of managerial organisation in Britain in the late...

Research into the development of costing systems during the last 20 or so years has begun to challenge the previously widely held view that little by way of progress was made before the end of the nineteenth century. Much of this later research, however, did not include consideration of...

In the French language, the word comptabiliteacute (accounting) first appeared in the middle of the eighteenth century. It was used in the Royal finances and its first meaning was that of accountability. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, or thereabouts, the uses of the word evolved...

Dans les domaines de la gestion des ressources humaines et des relations industrielles, la vulgate considère la diffusion d'information aux salariés comme une bonne pratique, sensée concourir à l'implication du personnel. Pourtant, l'observation de trois grandes entreprises sidérurgiques...

The question we address here is: "What is the very nature of managerial problems?". We first argue that real management problems, as opposed to technical problems, are those which do not have "a priori" solutions and for which the arguments for and against any important decision are more or less...

Nous abordons ici les deux types de problèmes auxquels sont confrontés les chercheurs qui s'intéressent à l'épaisseur temporelle des problèmes de management : d'une part l'étude de l'histoire d'un problème managérial peut être considérée comme une méthode pour l'approcher1, mais...