The O'Connor reference mentioned by one of the repliers is: O'Connor, E. S.
(1999), 'The Politics of Management Thought: A Case Study of the Harvard
Business School and the Human Relations School', Academy of Management
Review 24(1), 117-131.
For another precursor to Mayo et al, see my own piece: 'Henry Dennison,
Elton Mayo and Human Relations Historiography', Management and
Organizational History 1(2), May 2006, 177-199.
Dennison was a contemporary and travelled in the same circles as many of the
other contributors such as Whiting Williams, Henry Metcalf, Ordway Tead,
Mary van Kleeck, et al.
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