Scientific management is the label Frederick Taylor attached to the system of management devised by him. In this article we present our discovery of very different scientific management principles that were developed roughly concurrently with Taylorism by German physicist Ernst Abbe, then owner...

Scientific management is the label Frederick Taylor attached to the system of shop-floor management devised by him. In this article we present our discovery of very different scientific management principles that, roughly concurrently with Taylorism, were developed by German...

"Scientific management" is the label Frederick Taylor attached to the system of shop-floor management devised by him. In this article, we present our discovery of very different "scientific" management principles that, roughly concurrently with Taylorism, were developed by German...

Building on recent research on dynamic, high-growth firms — so called “gazelles” — this paper explores a simple question that is important both in theoretical and practical terms: what is the fastest rate at which firms can grow. Based on a sample of seven high-growth firms (Cisco, G....