Management Audit Approach in Writing Business History (RLE Accounting): A Comparison with Kennedy's Technique on Railroad History: 18 (Routledge Library Editions: Accounting)

Allen Bures

ISBN 10: 0415854210 / ISBN 13: 9780415854214

Published by Routledge 2013-11-01, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Management Audit Approach in Writing Business History (RLE Accounting): A Comparison with Kennedy's Technique on Railroad History: 18 (Routledge Library Editions: Accounting)
• Publisher: Routledge 2013-11-01
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415854210
• ISBN 13: 9780415854214
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This study adds both knowledge and method in the writing of business history. The author proposes that a preliminary management audit can be devised and utilized to gather data, analyse and compare longitudinally the quality of management existing in organizations. This book modifies a methodological tool for measuring, analysing and comparing managements to aid in the writing of business history. It establishes criteria and examples of excellent management from a sample of the USA’s first large-scale organization – the railroads. Prior to the 1870s the railroads were the only big business in the USA and the early ones emerged as a managerial problem which made obsolescent traditional structures and concepts and required effective management.

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