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Our main aim is to analyze the thought of Chester Barnard on the creation and maintenance of a cooperative system, the executive process, and the function of leadership, and to examine its relevance for modern studies in economics and business administration.
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The fundamental work of Barnard (1938) is The Functions of the Executive, Harvard College, Mass. The second edition was in 1948 and also includes in the appendix a series of “Selected writings” (eight chapters). The first chapter regards some principles and fundamental considerations in relations with personnel (speech given at Fifth Summer Conference Course in Industrial Relations, Graduate College, Princeton University, 20 September 1935); the second chapter concerns the dilemmas of leadership in the democratic method (paper read as the Stafford Little Lecture, at Princeton University, 1939); the third chapter concerns the nature of leadership (synthesis of two speeches given on 24 January 1940, printed privately in 1940 and reprinted in Human Factors in Management, ed. Schuyler Hoslett, Park College Press, 1946); the fourth is about concepts of organization (revised article entitled Comments on the Job of the Executive, in Harvard Business Review, vol.18, n.2 1940); the fifth deals with planning for a world government (reprinted from Approaches to World Peace, collection edited by L. Bryson, L. Finkelstein and R.M. MacIver, copyright 1944 of the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life, Congress held at Columbia University in September 1943); the sixth chapter is a review of the book by Barbara Wotton on “Freedom Under Planning,” Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press (the review was published in Southern Economic Journal, vol. XII, n. 3, January 1946); the seventh concerns the training of executives (speech given at a meeting with members of the faculty of the School of Business and of the Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 4 October 1945); the eighth chapter regards functions and pathology of status systems in formal organizations (taken from Industry and Society, edited by W. Foote Whyte, McGraw Hill Book Company Inc., 1946).
Among the other works of the author, we have referred to: Barnard (1945), pp. 175–182; Barnard (1946, 1948, 1958), pp. 1–13.
The 1948 edition of The Functions of the Executive is translated into Italian with the title: Le funzioni del dirigente. Organizzazione e direzione, UTET, Torino, 1970.
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For analysis of Barnard’s thought see: Andrews (1968), Anicich (2009), Callender (2009), Dunphy and Hoopes (2002) pp. 1024–1028; Gabor and Mahoney (2010), Gehani (2002), pp. 980–991; Golembiewski (1988), pp. 275–300; Golembiewski and Kuhnert (1994), pp. 1195–1238; Keon (1986), pp. 456–459; McMahon and Carr (1999), pp. 228–240; Novicevic et al. (2005), pp. 1396–1409; Scott (1982), pp. 197–201; Scott (1992); Wolf (1973, 1974).
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Zanda, S. (2018). Objectives and Research Methodology. In: Building Efficient Management and Leadership Practices. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60068-0_1
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