Vadim I. Marshev - History of Management Thought: Genesis and Development from Ancient Origins to the Present Day

The series The series Contributions to Management Science contains research publications in all fields of business and management science. These publications are primarily monographs and multiple author works containing new research results, and also feature selected conference-based publications are also considered. The focus of the series lies in presenting the development of latest theoretical and empirical research across different viewpoints. contains research publications in all fields of business and management science. These publications are primarily monographs and multiple author works containing new research results, and also feature selected conference-based publications are also considered. The focus of the series lies in presenting the development of latest theoretical and empirical research across different viewpoints.

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In the new edition of the textbook History of Management Thought, as in previous editions, starting in 1987, we are talking about the multi-thousand-year world history of management thought (HMT). The main difference from the 2005 edition is the updating and addition of part of the textbook sections with the results of the latest research in the history of management, business, and management thought. Among the sources of updates and supplements are the works of international conferences on the History of management thought and business (HMT&B) conducted since 1996 at the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University (FE MSU), the work of the annual International Business History Conference sponsored by the Harvard Business School (USA), materials of the meetings of the Academy of Management (AOM USA), the authors research papers, and studies of my learnersstudents and masters and postgraduate students at the Faculty of Economics of MSU. It was recent researchers who encouraged the reissue of the textbook, offered the results of their studies as materials for the new textbook, and thus helped update it.

Management issues have been and continue to be the focus of attention of business circles, political elites, the public, educators, and management consultants. Representatives of these communities have often been the authors and implementers of management ideas. The main motives of search, formation, and development of management ideas have always been to ensure the well-being, welfare, and safety of members of the social organization (family, enterprise, state, society) and hence the increase of efficiency and effectiveness of management decisions, continuous improvement of management of the organization, and increase of efficiency and effectiveness of the activities of organizations. It is this process of emergence, formation, and development of management ideas on a long time interval in different regions of the world that this tutorial is devoted to.

This tutorial attempts to analyze and synthesize the theoretical and applied developments devoted to management of various organizations in different specific historical eras. The authors of the developments were representatives of civilizations of the ancient East, China, India, Greece, and Rome, feudal medieval states, the first capitalist states, and the modern states of Germany, England, Austria, the United States, Russia, and others. Covering a long period of time (the IV millennium B.C. to the beginning of the twenty-first century) and limited by the scope of the textbook, the author did not always collate the enunciated material or perform a comparative analysis of the views on management and sent the reader to relevant literature or to carry out independent research and projects on the proposed topics (see Appendix 1).

The tutorial is intended for teachers and students. The textbook is the basis for the history of management thought in the bachelors and masters programs at economics faculties, management faculties, business schools, and management schools at higher education institutions, for students in management of an organization, general and strategic management, business management, entrepreneurship, public administration, financial management, innovation management, regional management, industry management, and other managerial specialties.

In the preparation of the new textbook, the authors colleagues, staff from the Department of Management of an Organization and the History of the National Economy of the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University, and, of course, as mentioned above, participants of international conferences on HMT&B provided professional assistance with advice and suggestions.