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On the manager as principal clerk
Author(s) -
Horowitz Ira
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
managerial and decision economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1099-1468
pISSN - 0143-6570
DOI - 10.1002/mde.4090150504
Subject(s) - principal (computer security) , league , neglect , class (philosophy) , process (computing) , business , economics , management , computer science , psychology , artificial intelligence , computer security , physics , operating system , astronomy , psychiatry
Until recently, economic theory and economists treated the management process with benign neglect. Insofar as business enterprises — the firms of economic theory – require managers to oversee their daily operations, these managers are implicitly viewed as fungible ‘principal clerks’. This paper makes this view explicit and considers whether it is valid for a particular class of manager, that of a major league baseball team.