Management in action
- 1 September 1985
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Education + Training
- Vol. 27 (9) , 284
- https://doi.org/10.1108/eb017195
Abstract
Business and management undergraduates expect to join an administrative machine and become its systems monitors. The textbooks lead them to expect this. But it is not what management is really like, writes Peter Lawrence in Management in Action, a study of British and German production and general managers, just published. The book shows management work as messy and complicated, not systematic:Keywords
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