Management Audit Approach in Writing Business History (RLE Accounting)

Download or read book Management Audit Approach in Writing Business History (RLE Accounting) written by Allen L. Bures and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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 USA’s 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 and concepts and required effective management.