The Rise of Digital Management

This book analyzes the history of management, placing it in perspective with both American history and the genealogy of digital technology. Focusing on the years of industrial mobilization in the United States (from 1937 to 1945) and their extension into the Cold War, it shows in particular how “scientific management” was reconfigured and relegitimized in favor of a new, profoundly American geopolitics. In a context where the future was at a standstill, this researc... >Voir plus