Management Audit Approach in Writing Business History (RLE Accounting)

Name: Management Audit Approach in Writing Business History (RLE Accounting)
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Management Audit Approach in Writing Business History (RLE Accounting)A Comparison with Kennedys Technique on Railroad History\nAuthor(s): Allen Bures\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138980273, 978-1138980273\nSynopsis\nThis study adds both knowledge and method in the writing of business history. The author proposes that a preliminary management audit can be devised and utilized to gather data, analyse and compare longitudinally the quality of management existing in organizations. This book modifies a methodological tool for measuring, analysing and comparing managements to aid in the writing of business history. It establishes criteria and examples of excellent management from a sample of the USAs first large-scale organization the railroads. Prior to the 1870s the railroads were the only big business in the USA and the early ones emerged as a managerial problem which made obsolescent traditional structures a.