Mata, T;
(2018)
The Managerial Ideal and Business Magazines in the Great Depression.
Enterprise & Society
, 19
(3)
pp. 578-609.
10.1017/eso.2017.44.
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Abstract
The 1930s transformed American capitalism. This article interrogates the political economy of two business magazines created at the start of the Great Depression. I argue that Business Week’s and Fortune’s signature approaches to reporting articulated an ideal conception of the manager. The early century conception saw the manager as engineer of operational efficiency. The new ideal viewed the manager as a political economist coordinating firms with their external environment, notably an interventionist and scrutinizing state, volatile markets, and a critical public opinion.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Managerial Ideal and Business Magazines in the Great Depression |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/eso.2017.44 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eso.2017.44 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Business, History Of Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Social Sciences - Other Topics, HISTORY, WORLD, PRESS |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Science and Technology Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10056176 |
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