Lectures on Organization. Delivered in the Course on Industrial Organization in the Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University.

ROBB, Russell (1864-1927):

Published by Privately Printed, 1910., 1910

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2 leaves, 68 pp. Original cloth. Covers lightly mottled, else Very Good. Robb 'was an American electrical engineer and manager whose original contributions on organization theory have not received the attention they deserve. After graduating from MIT, Robb spent most of his career as an executive in the Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation. He expressed his views on organization in three lectures presented to the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration in 1909 and later published [offered here]. Young summarizes their import: These three lectures . . . contain more practical observations on organizations and concepts of organization theory than [Max] Weber. He was a practising engineer manager, whereas Weber was a sociologist . . . His penetrating observation of organizations as 'only a means to ends -- it provides a method' and analysis of principles and concepts make him more 'a pioneer of organization theory' than Weber' (Lucy C. Morse & Dan L. Babcock, Managing Engineering and Technology: An Introduction to Management for Engineers, 5th ed., 2010, p. 38; Young = Edmund Young, supplemental notes for 'Management for Engineers' course taught at Fort Leonard Wood, MO, August 1988).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lectures on Organization. Delivered in the Course on Industrial Organization in the Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University.
• Publisher: Privately Printed, 1910.
• Publication Date: 1910
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket