Understanding management: social science foundations

The management field. Theme 1. Accounting for capitalism

The firm. Theme 2. The agency problem

Workers of the world ... Theme 3. A short history of collective action

The search for consummate cooperation. Theme 4. A short history of bounded rationality

The structuring of origanizations. Theme 5. Measuring performance : scorecards and league tables

Strategy as competition and cooperation. Theme 6. A short history of the M form

Strategy as organizational theory. Theme 7. Managing markets from hierarchies

The strange rise of financial economics. Theme 8. The modern corporation

The anthropology of management. Theme 9. Performativity

does life imitate art?

In search of a better past?