The Past, Present and Future of Sustainable Management : From the Conservation Movement to Climate Change

"We might think sustainable management is a new idea, created in the 1960s by enlightened modern scientists. We might think that it puts us on a new path, beyond what management was originally about. But this is not true. Sustainable management is as old as civilization and was a foundation stone of management science as it was formed in the first decade of the 20th century. Recovering this forgotten past provides deeper roots and greater traction to advance sustainable management in our own times. This book charts a history of sustainable management from premodern times, through the birth of management science as an offshoot of the conservation movement, to the present day. The authors argue that modern tools like Triple Bottom Line reporting and multiple Sustainable Development Goals may be less useful than a return to a more fundamental and holistic view of management"--Page 4 of cover Preface Contents List of Figures 1 The Presence of the Past 1.1 The Second Biggest Problem of the Decade 1.2 Histories of the Present: A Foucauldian Approach 1.2.1 An Acknowledged Bias Against Conventional Histories 1.2.2 Critiquing Cumulative Continuities from Singular Points of Origin 1.2.3 Discarding Chronological Evolution and Juxtaposing Discontinuities Instead 1.2.4 Seeing Development as a Result of ‘Problematizations’ Not Continuous Evolution 1.2.5 Subjects and Objects Are Not Separate and Distinct, but Co-Created References 2 The Conventional History of Sustainable Management 2.1 Management’s Newest New Thing 2.2 The Good and the Origin of Management (and How Sustainable Management Does Not Fit) 2.2.1 The Good of Management 2.2.2 The Origin of Management 2.3 Sustainable Management: Child of the 60s, Adopted by Management in the 2000s 2.4 Second Thoughts References 3 A Counter-History of Sustainable Management (or How the American Most Hated by Big Business Invented Management) 3.1 Efficiency Made Good 3.2 The Formation of Management as a Subject with Conservation at Its Central Motive 3.2.1 Management for Conservation 3.2.2 Management for Social Justice 3.2.3 Management for Economic Efficiency 3.2.4 Taylor’s Embrace of the Good of Conservation 3.3 The Emergence of Brandeis’s View of the Good of Management 3.3.1 Student, Practitioner, Teacher 3.3.2 Advocate for Better Management 3.3.3 Isaiah’s Elevation: Management Guru to Political Prophet to the Supreme Court 3.4 Brandeis’s Foundations Fade 3.4.1 A Fork in the Road 3.4.2 History Chooses Taylor as ‘the Father’ 3.4.3 Brandeis Ebbs Away References 4 A New History of (Sustainable) Management 4.1 The Case for Another Origin 4.2 A New History for the Future 4.2.1 New History Part I 4.2.2 New History Part II 4.3 About-Face References Index