The Rowntree Business Lectures and the Interwar British Management Movement, 1919-1938

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/id/document/16801 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/id/document/16801 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/id/document/16801 archive 7242 disk0/00/00/07/17 2022-12-12 16:46:32 2024-07-15 10:59:16 2022-12-12 16:46:32 data_collection show Shaw Gareth 0000-0002-7135-2105 University of Exeter FALSE Maclean Mairi K.M.Maclean@bath.ac.uk 0000-0001-9030-7492 University of Bath FALSE RightsHolder Shaw Gareth 0000-0002-7135-2105 University of Exeter Other Stringer Gary 0000-0001-7719-9511 University of Exeter The Rowntree Business Lectures and the Interwar British Management Movement, 1919-1938 DV0010 dept_strat_org Business education, Business management, War, Knowledge transfer The literature on inter-war British industrial management has been extremely critical, presenting firms as bring conservative in organisational terms, with only a small number of progressive ones (Hannah 1983). Similarly, other observers have emphasized the grip of tradition on British business culture (Wilson 1995: Wilson and Thomson 2006). Despite these views, we know there was a growing core of British Management thought (Urwick 1956, Child 1969, Bech et al 2010) and a large number of firms employing management consultants (Ferguson 2002). In this context. Quaker employers led by Cadbury and Rowntree led the way with three significant innovations. These were: i. Conferences of Quaker employers (Cadbury conferences); ii. A series of lectures (Rowntree lectures) to enable employers and employees to explore the management challenges facing industry; iii. The establishment of Management Research Group movement by Rowntree. The initiatives led by Rowntree have received rather limited attention with mainly a focus on their structure rather than content (Bech et al 2010; Wilson and Thomson 2006). Our project aims to examine these innovations in greater depth thereby contributing to a clearer understanding of the evolution of British management theory and practice in the inter-war period. It will do so within the context of ideas of knowledge transfer and the importance of communities of practice as represented by the creation of the Management Research Groups. In addition it will create a valuable resource for other researchers in the form of a digitised version of the material. 2021-05-27 UK Data Service none http://rowntree.exeter.ac.uk/ Live version of the website Economic and Social Research Council https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000269 ES/N009797/1 The Rowntree Business Lectures and the Interwar British Management Movement cent_cbos Archival research; oral history. Sources were selected according to themes following the research questions, discovered with assistance from archivists at each archive. Oral archives of individuals involved in the lectures, and were identified from archive holdings as being of the individuals concerned, and were digitised and included in the archive for preservation purposes, whether the material was relevant or not. Digitised primary sources are presented, with associated metadata and transcripts where necessary. Documents were collated from originals held by various archives documented in the metadata; they were photographed or scanned mostly as JPG files, then OCR'd using ABBYY Finereader to create PDF/A documents readable with Adobe Acrobat. Images were scanned as JPGs. Audo files were recovered from variable-speed reel-to-reel tapes, archived as lossless WAV files and converted to MP3 at 256kbps or higher. The Omeka-hosted Archive website URL provides user-friendly access to all data and metadata. The OAI-PMH repository link provides an API which can be used by OAI compliant archives to access or ingest the same data, but will need to be supplemented with OAIPMH commands to extract information. 2016-07-01 2019-06-30 1919-01-01 1938-12-31 en 1 10.5255/UKDA-SN-854891 https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2018.0301 pub