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Welcome to this section of the handbook, which focuses on the history and development of management in an intellectual and practical sense between the 1940s and the 1980s. The introduction provides a brief overview of the themes of the period which the chapters in the section go on to explore in more detail.
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Tennent, K.D. (2020). Management in the Age of Prosperity, c. 1940–1990: Section Introduction. In: Muldoon, J., Gould, A., McMurray, A. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Management History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62348-1_111-1
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