Issue 2, 2012

Dmitriev A. L., Semenov A. A. The First Steps of the American System of Scientific Management in the Pre-revolutionary Russia

The article analyzes the spread of ideas of scientific management in the prerevolutionary Russia. The nature of the reaction of the scientific community to the ideas of scientific management are given, light is cast upon the position of the most prominent Russian supporters and opponents of the Taylorism. The authors have chosen a completely new material on the extent and nature of the spread of Taylorism and related movements in Russia. In particular, they show that the theory and practice of scientific management were widely known in our country even before the First World War and gave rise to lively debate. Keywords: History of Management, Taylorism, Economic History, History of Economic Thought.

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