Seminar "Corporate change and the rise of modern management"

Module-Code: 5209-611 (2.Parallelgruppe)

 

Lecturer: Prof. Carlo Brambilla 

 

Registration: Registration to the seminar is possible from 04-14 April 2022 on HohCampus

 

Dates:

Thursday, 07.04.2022 from 09:00 to 13:00 (Online-Meeting, Zoom: Meeting ID: 841 6417 2892, Passcode: 5PctE3)

Friday, 08.04.2022 from 09:00 to 13:00 (Online-Meeting, Zoom: Meeting ID: 841 6417 2892, Passcode: 5PctE3)

Friday, 08.04.2022 from 14:00 to 18:00 (Online-Meeting, Zoom: Meeting ID: 841 6417 2892, Passcode: 5PctE3)

Monday, 13.06.2022 from 14:00 to 18:00 (HS 10)

Tuesday, 14.06.2022 from 09:00 to 13:00 (HS 26)

 

Content:

The course aims at analyzing organizational change during the last 150 years. Often intertwined with one the other, technological innovation and changes in organizations played a relevant role in the evolution and growth of the enterprise from the end of the 19th century onward, and therefore in the process of economic growth and modernization many national economies underwent during the last century. The course will focus on the rise and evolution of modern management as related with the emergence and development of the business enterprise during the 20th century.

The topics of the course include: the emergence and development of big business from the end of the 19th century; entrepreneurship and management; the evolution of management theory and practice in the 20th century as related to the development of the firm (forms of enterprise, organizational issues etc.), also by relying upon some case studies about specific aspects of organizational history. Students lively participation to class discussion is expected.

 

Mode of Delivery:

Introductory lectures in class (via Zoom); discussion of the students' individual papers with the class (in presence). Students will attend class doing the readings in advance, in order to be able to actively participate to class discussion. Assessment is based on: 30% attendance, participation and discussion in class; 55% individual project: written paper and its presentation to the class; 15% discussion of a fellow student's paper.

 

Preliminary readings list:

Other readings may be added, also to suggest students a starting point for their individual projects.

  • Boyce G. and S. Ville (2002), The Development of Modern Business, Basingstoke - New York, Palgrave.

Chapter 1: History and Theory of the Growth of the Firm.
Chapter 2: Entrepreneurship and Management; pp. 29-36.
Chapter 8: Structure
Chapter 9: Interorganizational Relations and Cooperative Structures; pp. 273-75.
Chapter 2: Entrepreneurship and Management; pp. 38-42 and Box 2.2, pp. 50-51.
Chapter 5: Labour Management, § Taylorism and the Growth of Scientific Management, pp. 122-24.
Document 6.1, pp. 171-72.

  • Kim H. (2010), “Business Groups in South Korea”, in Colpan A.M. et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, Oxford, OUP, pp. 157-179.
  • Kipping M. (1996), “The US Influence on the Evolutuion of Management Consultancies in Britain, France, and Germany Since 1945”, Business and Economic History, 25, 1, pp. 112-123.
  • Kipping M. (1999), “American Management Consulting Companies in Western Europe, 1920 to 1990: Products, Reputation, and Relationships”, The Business History Review, 73, 2, pp. 190-220.
  • McKenna C. (2006), The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
  • McKenna Ch. (2012), “Strategy Followed Structure: Management Consulting and the Creation of a Market for "Strategy", 1950-2000”, in Kahl S.J. et al. (eds.) History and Strategy, Bingley, Emerald Group Publishing, pp. 153-186
  • Anderson R.E. (1994), “Matrix Redux”, Business Horizons, Nov.-Dec., pp. 6-10.