Scientific management's lost aesthetic : architecture, organization, and the taylorized beauty of the mechanical
By: GUILLEN, Mauro F
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ArticlePublisher: Ithaca : Johnson Graduate School of Management, December 1997Administrative Science Quarterly 42, 4, p. 682-715Abstract: Drawing on archival and textual materials, this paper challenges conventional views of scientific management by exploring its aesthetic implications through on analysis of the inspiration that the European modernist architects of the 1890-1930 period drew from the ideology and techniques associated with this organizational model. The historical and institutional conditions that surrounded such a revolutionary reinterpretation of scientific management are compared across countries. The common grouding of scientific mangement and modernist architecture in engineering is proposed as the key influence that shaped the professional reconstruction of the organizational field of architecture and the subsequent diffusion of modernist design. The implications for organizational studies are discussed in the context of the prevailing underestimation of scientific management's qualitites and impact on society
Drawing on archival and textual materials, this paper challenges conventional views of scientific management by exploring its aesthetic implications through on analysis of the inspiration that the European modernist architects of the 1890-1930 period drew from the ideology and techniques associated with this organizational model. The historical and institutional conditions that surrounded such a revolutionary reinterpretation of scientific management are compared across countries. The common grouding of scientific mangement and modernist architecture in engineering is proposed as the key influence that shaped the professional reconstruction of the organizational field of architecture and the subsequent diffusion of modernist design. The implications for organizational studies are discussed in the context of the prevailing underestimation of scientific management's qualitites and impact on society
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