Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution Shenhav, Yehouda

Shenhav, Yehouda

ISBN 10: 0198296304 / ISBN 13: 9780198296300

Published by Oxford University Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution Shenhav, Yehouda
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198296304
• ISBN 13: 9780198296300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Management is a powerful mode of thought and code of conduct in the modern world, closely associated with the American way and a natural extension of economic progress. This is a book about the history of management and the origin of managerial rationality in the United States.

About the Author

Yehouda Shenhav is Associate Professor of Sociology at Tel-Aviv University. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Sociology from Stanford University (1985) and an M.Sc. degree from the Faculty of Industrial Engineering at the Israel Institute of Technology (1981). Shenhav taught at several universities in the United States, including Stanford University, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Iowa. He served as Head of the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University between 1995 and 1998.