Management Research and Practice

Abstract

Management is often seen as a necessary but benign component of any modern business organization. 
\nThis article suggests that underlying modern notions of management are the far older practices comprising the management prevalent in most spheres of human activity. 
\nMany of these are political in nature and distort and manipulate knowledge to achieve ends which may include criminal activity and fraud, but often merely serve to further the aims of organizational actors. 
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