An American Tempo ADC undersize

Updegraff, Robert R.

Published by A. W. Shaw Company, Chicago, 1929

About this Item

Octavo, [17.5cm/7inches], full quarter-bound pictorial cloth sans dust jacket, pp.61. Part of Updegraff's little library of self startersPlease feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Arch Wilkinson Shaw was an American management theorist, editor and publisher, who applied the ideas of scientific management in the areas of offices and the tertiary sector. It was also during the First World War, Secretary of Commercial Economy Board and member of the board of directors of the Harvard Business School. The journal System was first published in December 1900 by the Shaw-Walker Company. Since the second volume in December 1901 it went with the subtitle "The magazine of business." In the very first article, entitled The Cost of Production. one of the initial aims of the magazine was described as: In our next few issues we hope to present to our readers a cost system, which, while not applied in the sense of a balance ledger system, with all of its intricate problems, will furnish facts, suf ciently accurate for all practical purposes and one which will largely aid the progressive manager to establish his own costs in a satisfactory manner as well as point out to his superintendent any weaknesses existing in the factory, thereby pro ting by a speedy remedy of excessive costs, etc. In 1903 A.W. Shaw Company was founded and the System magazine became their flagship publication and a sensation of its time. Jeffrey L. Cruikshan (1987) recalled: Under Shaw's direction, System attempted to take a practical approach to business. It was a successful magazine, and it grew steadily in size and influence during Shaw's tenure as editor. (In 1927, System was purchased by McGraw-Hill. and renamed Business Week.). But System, as Shaw saw it. faced a difficult question: how to uncover the principles that must underlie the evolving practice of business. It was a question that Shaw himself had faced in 1906, when he had helped Northwestern University design an undergraduate business curriculum. A few years late at Harvard Business School Shaw and Edwin Francis Gay were faced with a similar challenge when they were designing the curriculum for the business graduate studies. In exceptionally good condition. Seller Inventory # 25858

Bibliographic Details

Title: An American Tempo ADC undersize

Publisher: A. W. Shaw Company, Chicago

Publication Date: 1929

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: First Impression.