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Papers by Kyle Bruce
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Jun 27, 2006
This book argues that the capacity of a country to develop, and the levels of economic and social... more This book argues that the capacity of a country to develop, and the levels of economic and social development achieved, depend more on the institutional parameters within which the development policies are implemented than on the policies themselves. It contends that forces of globalisation influence individual countries' economic and social institutions.
History of Political Economy, Sep 1, 2007
In recent writings, Bruce Kaufman (2000c, 2001a, 2001b, 2002) has argued that contemporary human ... more In recent writings, Bruce Kaufman (2000c, 2001a, 2001b, 2002) has argued that contemporary human resource (HR) management-with its roots in employment or personnel management-owes an immense intellectual debt to applied labor economics in the fi rst fi fteen years of its existence (circa 1915-30) as a subdiscipline of economics. Academic labor economists' writings were the most substantive, authoritative, and well represented in the literature of this period, Kaufman argues, whereas contributions to personnel/HR management made by those outside economics academe were rather modest. Overall, he laments the fact that extant accounts of the historical evolution of personnel/HR management overlook the important contributions made by the fl edgling labor economics of the interwar period, particularly those of the institutional economist, John R. Commons, whom he ordains as the "father" of industrial relations thought and as cofounder of the personnel/HR management fi eld. This article seeks to complement but also enrich Kaufman's analysis in this regard. While I heartily concur that the contribution made by academic economic theorists to the intellectual development of personnel/HR management-as to many areas of contemporary management thinkinghas gone largely unrecognized, the article seeks to broaden this argument
Management & Organizational History, May 1, 2006
... the Taylor Society wherein he advocated the continued broadening of Taylorist principles, fro... more ... the Taylor Society wherein he advocated the continued broadening of Taylorist principles, from a ... Hawthorne (Chicago) plant of Western Electric.18 In contrast to Taylorism, the major ... to both neoclassical economics' view of homo conomicus and the Taylorists' apparent fixation ...
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 1993
Oxford University Press eBooks, Mar 29, 2012
On the Contributions of Elton Mayo and Eric Trist to Human Relations' Management Consulting.
Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements inv... more Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements involving the conversion of material into digital or electronic form. Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong. represent the views of the University of Wollongong.
University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2012
Journal of Economic Issues, Dec 1, 2000
A sizable amount of attention in the history of economic thought has been devoted to unraveling t... more A sizable amount of attention in the history of economic thought has been devoted to unraveling the unique contributions of John Kenneth Galbraith. Not nearly as much the subject of contention as is Thorstein Veblen-the intellectual figure with whom his thought is most often compared-Galbraith is no less controversial.' Yet within the discourse and despite some guidance from Galbraith in interviews and his "official" and "unofficial" memoirs, very little has been said about a key period in Galbraith's intellectual development, a period that laid much of the philosophical groundwork for his ensuing research agenda. During the second half of the 1 930s, following his early New Deal service and initial Harvard appointment, Galbraith became something of a peripatetic scholar, teacher, and researcher and found himself employed as a "tutor-in-residence" to Boston businessman Henry S. Dennison. The two subsequently penned two largely overlooked monographs, Modern Competition and Business Policy and Toward Full Employment, both of which were published in 1938. The purpose of this paper is to explore Dennison's influence on an economist considered by many adherents to be the most important living exponent of "old" institutionalism. The central means of going about this task is to review Dennison and Galbraith's work and, more importantly, to utilize the latter's testimony to elaborate upon the snippets of reference in the secondary literature to this key period in his life.2 It is argued that Dennison played a key role in prodding Galbraith to defect from orthodoxy and to embrace the then-controversial ideas of J.M. Keynes' General Theory before their wider acceptance even at Harvard, which is viewed as "the principle avenue by which Keynes" ideas passed to the United States" (Schlesinger 1984, 9; Galbraith 1971, 49).3 It is also argued that Galbraith's later foray into the US industrial
Proceedings - Academy of Management, Aug 1, 2022
Social Science Research Network, 2013
The conventional understanding of scientific management and why it ceased to be the primary schoo... more The conventional understanding of scientific management and why it ceased to be the primary school of thought within the field of organization and management studies has been problematized in recent decades. This paper compounds this process by documenting how the scientific managers sought to build a science of management not limited by managerial opportunism and strove to diffuse their ideas by building an alliance with the International Labour Organization, a body whose core purpose was to promote pluralistic and deliberative management practices and ideas such as codetermination.
The journal of applied management and entrepreneurship, Jul 1, 2005
Social Science Research Network, 2013
Original and New Institutional Economics: Brethren rather than Foes? Lessons from the Sociocognit... more Original and New Institutional Economics: Brethren rather than Foes? Lessons from the Sociocognitive approach of "Late" Douglass North Institutions matter and understanding institutions and institutional change is a core agenda for the social sciences (Nee 2005). Collective action projects function more efficiently (in a higher order sense of stable social order) and with far less uncertainty with institutions than without them. Indeed, this is their raison d'etre. So whether in "societal games", or in the conduct of corporate missions, or in individual decision making, "double contingency" mandates some basic formal and/or informal "rules of the game" to render collective action feasible (Aoki 2011; Parsons 1951; Luhmann 1995; North 1990; Beckert 1996). Across the disciplinary spectrum of the social sciences many if not most scholars concur. And yet despite the promise of shared understanding and intellectual exchange this brings, what is most conspicuous about the cross-disciplinary epistemic community of institutional theorists is the limited degree of dialogue between scholars, not just across but even within disciplinary boundaries. For instance, and as readers of this journal know all too well, within institutional economics, the "original" (and "neo") institutionalists are of the belief the "new" accord individual agents far too much scope as regards the emergence and change of institutions, and further, that they downplay the crucial roles of culture and power (Mayhew
History of Economics Review, 1995
AbstractThe art of war, however, as it is certainly the noblest of all arts, so in the progress o... more AbstractThe art of war, however, as it is certainly the noblest of all arts, so in the progress of improvement it necessarily becomes one of the most complicated among them. The state of the mechanical, as well as some other arts, with which it is necessarily connected, determines the degree of perfection to which it is capable of being carried at any particular time. But in order to carry it to this degree of perfection it is necessary that it should become the sole or principal occupation of a particular class of citizens, and the division of labour (employments) is as necessary for the improvement of this as of every other art.
Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 2007
... DOI: 10.1080/09537320601065233 Kyle Bruce a & Judith Jordan b * pages 7-16. Avail... more ... DOI: 10.1080/09537320601065233 Kyle Bruce a & Judith Jordan b * pages 7-16. Available online: 17 Jan 2007. ...
Australasian Marketing Journal, 2020
This paper demonstrates that the concept of customer orientation has its genesis not in marketing... more This paper demonstrates that the concept of customer orientation has its genesis not in marketing, but rather in management thought; specifically, within the Scientific Management movement. We trace the concept through its popularisation in the marketing discipline with the work of Theodore Levitt, the subsequent difficulties in translating the concept into practice through the late twentieth century, and its eventual integration and application of into more recent streams of popular marketing thought and practice, such as service-dominant logic and co-creation. We conclude with an exposition of the contribution of customer orientation to the disciplines of marketing and strategy in the guise of design thinking, the business model canvas, disruptive innovation, and lean startup. In this way, we are “righting” two “wrongs” by correcting the received wisdom in both management and marketing. We are also helping researchers, educators and practitioners in these two disciplines avoid fal...
Industrial Marketing Management, 2018
Industrial high-tech markets are characterized by profound levels of market and technological unc... more Industrial high-tech markets are characterized by profound levels of market and technological uncertainty and so firms herein must navigate extraordinarily dynamic and fast-moving environments. In such settings, traditional top-down modes of strategic planning are ill-suited to generate the flexibility and speed of change necessary for firms to maintain environmental fitness over time. Survival requires that significant decision-making powers necessarily be located on the operational periphery of the firm. To understand how the resultant multiplicity of micro-strategizing and decision-making might engender macro-level change(s) to business models, we conduct a cross-sectional case study of two business models at Cisco Systems. After problematizing two broad strands of extant theory, we conjecture that a rival theory-complexity theory-might allow us to better explain how Cisco's business models evolve in practice and we utilize our case study to test this conjecture. We find that the business models studied have the capacity to change themselves spontaneously and autonomously from executive-led decisions in response to external stimuli. We offer a novel theoretical insight by postulating the existence of complex adaptive business models and we advance knowledge in a way that is useful for practitioners by suggesting they perceive themselves as facilitators and orchestrators of business models rather than owners or even controllers of them.
This book argues that the capacity of a country to develop, and the levels of economic and social... more This book argues that the capacity of a country to develop, and the levels of economic and social development achieved, depend more on the institutional parameters within which the development policies are implemented than on the policies themselves. It contends that forces of globalisation influence individual countries' economic and social institutions.
Academy of Management Proceedings
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Jun 27, 2006
This book argues that the capacity of a country to develop, and the levels of economic and social... more This book argues that the capacity of a country to develop, and the levels of economic and social development achieved, depend more on the institutional parameters within which the development policies are implemented than on the policies themselves. It contends that forces of globalisation influence individual countries' economic and social institutions.
History of Political Economy, Sep 1, 2007
In recent writings, Bruce Kaufman (2000c, 2001a, 2001b, 2002) has argued that contemporary human ... more In recent writings, Bruce Kaufman (2000c, 2001a, 2001b, 2002) has argued that contemporary human resource (HR) management-with its roots in employment or personnel management-owes an immense intellectual debt to applied labor economics in the fi rst fi fteen years of its existence (circa 1915-30) as a subdiscipline of economics. Academic labor economists' writings were the most substantive, authoritative, and well represented in the literature of this period, Kaufman argues, whereas contributions to personnel/HR management made by those outside economics academe were rather modest. Overall, he laments the fact that extant accounts of the historical evolution of personnel/HR management overlook the important contributions made by the fl edgling labor economics of the interwar period, particularly those of the institutional economist, John R. Commons, whom he ordains as the "father" of industrial relations thought and as cofounder of the personnel/HR management fi eld. This article seeks to complement but also enrich Kaufman's analysis in this regard. While I heartily concur that the contribution made by academic economic theorists to the intellectual development of personnel/HR management-as to many areas of contemporary management thinkinghas gone largely unrecognized, the article seeks to broaden this argument
Management & Organizational History, May 1, 2006
... the Taylor Society wherein he advocated the continued broadening of Taylorist principles, fro... more ... the Taylor Society wherein he advocated the continued broadening of Taylorist principles, from a ... Hawthorne (Chicago) plant of Western Electric.18 In contrast to Taylorism, the major ... to both neoclassical economics' view of homo conomicus and the Taylorists' apparent fixation ...
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 1993
Oxford University Press eBooks, Mar 29, 2012
On the Contributions of Elton Mayo and Eric Trist to Human Relations' Management Consulting.
Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements inv... more Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements involving the conversion of material into digital or electronic form. Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong. represent the views of the University of Wollongong.
University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2012
Journal of Economic Issues, Dec 1, 2000
A sizable amount of attention in the history of economic thought has been devoted to unraveling t... more A sizable amount of attention in the history of economic thought has been devoted to unraveling the unique contributions of John Kenneth Galbraith. Not nearly as much the subject of contention as is Thorstein Veblen-the intellectual figure with whom his thought is most often compared-Galbraith is no less controversial.' Yet within the discourse and despite some guidance from Galbraith in interviews and his "official" and "unofficial" memoirs, very little has been said about a key period in Galbraith's intellectual development, a period that laid much of the philosophical groundwork for his ensuing research agenda. During the second half of the 1 930s, following his early New Deal service and initial Harvard appointment, Galbraith became something of a peripatetic scholar, teacher, and researcher and found himself employed as a "tutor-in-residence" to Boston businessman Henry S. Dennison. The two subsequently penned two largely overlooked monographs, Modern Competition and Business Policy and Toward Full Employment, both of which were published in 1938. The purpose of this paper is to explore Dennison's influence on an economist considered by many adherents to be the most important living exponent of "old" institutionalism. The central means of going about this task is to review Dennison and Galbraith's work and, more importantly, to utilize the latter's testimony to elaborate upon the snippets of reference in the secondary literature to this key period in his life.2 It is argued that Dennison played a key role in prodding Galbraith to defect from orthodoxy and to embrace the then-controversial ideas of J.M. Keynes' General Theory before their wider acceptance even at Harvard, which is viewed as "the principle avenue by which Keynes" ideas passed to the United States" (Schlesinger 1984, 9; Galbraith 1971, 49).3 It is also argued that Galbraith's later foray into the US industrial
Proceedings - Academy of Management, Aug 1, 2022
Social Science Research Network, 2013
The conventional understanding of scientific management and why it ceased to be the primary schoo... more The conventional understanding of scientific management and why it ceased to be the primary school of thought within the field of organization and management studies has been problematized in recent decades. This paper compounds this process by documenting how the scientific managers sought to build a science of management not limited by managerial opportunism and strove to diffuse their ideas by building an alliance with the International Labour Organization, a body whose core purpose was to promote pluralistic and deliberative management practices and ideas such as codetermination.
The journal of applied management and entrepreneurship, Jul 1, 2005
Social Science Research Network, 2013
Original and New Institutional Economics: Brethren rather than Foes? Lessons from the Sociocognit... more Original and New Institutional Economics: Brethren rather than Foes? Lessons from the Sociocognitive approach of "Late" Douglass North Institutions matter and understanding institutions and institutional change is a core agenda for the social sciences (Nee 2005). Collective action projects function more efficiently (in a higher order sense of stable social order) and with far less uncertainty with institutions than without them. Indeed, this is their raison d'etre. So whether in "societal games", or in the conduct of corporate missions, or in individual decision making, "double contingency" mandates some basic formal and/or informal "rules of the game" to render collective action feasible (Aoki 2011; Parsons 1951; Luhmann 1995; North 1990; Beckert 1996). Across the disciplinary spectrum of the social sciences many if not most scholars concur. And yet despite the promise of shared understanding and intellectual exchange this brings, what is most conspicuous about the cross-disciplinary epistemic community of institutional theorists is the limited degree of dialogue between scholars, not just across but even within disciplinary boundaries. For instance, and as readers of this journal know all too well, within institutional economics, the "original" (and "neo") institutionalists are of the belief the "new" accord individual agents far too much scope as regards the emergence and change of institutions, and further, that they downplay the crucial roles of culture and power (Mayhew
History of Economics Review, 1995
AbstractThe art of war, however, as it is certainly the noblest of all arts, so in the progress o... more AbstractThe art of war, however, as it is certainly the noblest of all arts, so in the progress of improvement it necessarily becomes one of the most complicated among them. The state of the mechanical, as well as some other arts, with which it is necessarily connected, determines the degree of perfection to which it is capable of being carried at any particular time. But in order to carry it to this degree of perfection it is necessary that it should become the sole or principal occupation of a particular class of citizens, and the division of labour (employments) is as necessary for the improvement of this as of every other art.
Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 2007
... DOI: 10.1080/09537320601065233 Kyle Bruce a & Judith Jordan b * pages 7-16. Avail... more ... DOI: 10.1080/09537320601065233 Kyle Bruce a & Judith Jordan b * pages 7-16. Available online: 17 Jan 2007. ...
Australasian Marketing Journal, 2020
This paper demonstrates that the concept of customer orientation has its genesis not in marketing... more This paper demonstrates that the concept of customer orientation has its genesis not in marketing, but rather in management thought; specifically, within the Scientific Management movement. We trace the concept through its popularisation in the marketing discipline with the work of Theodore Levitt, the subsequent difficulties in translating the concept into practice through the late twentieth century, and its eventual integration and application of into more recent streams of popular marketing thought and practice, such as service-dominant logic and co-creation. We conclude with an exposition of the contribution of customer orientation to the disciplines of marketing and strategy in the guise of design thinking, the business model canvas, disruptive innovation, and lean startup. In this way, we are “righting” two “wrongs” by correcting the received wisdom in both management and marketing. We are also helping researchers, educators and practitioners in these two disciplines avoid fal...
Industrial Marketing Management, 2018
Industrial high-tech markets are characterized by profound levels of market and technological unc... more Industrial high-tech markets are characterized by profound levels of market and technological uncertainty and so firms herein must navigate extraordinarily dynamic and fast-moving environments. In such settings, traditional top-down modes of strategic planning are ill-suited to generate the flexibility and speed of change necessary for firms to maintain environmental fitness over time. Survival requires that significant decision-making powers necessarily be located on the operational periphery of the firm. To understand how the resultant multiplicity of micro-strategizing and decision-making might engender macro-level change(s) to business models, we conduct a cross-sectional case study of two business models at Cisco Systems. After problematizing two broad strands of extant theory, we conjecture that a rival theory-complexity theory-might allow us to better explain how Cisco's business models evolve in practice and we utilize our case study to test this conjecture. We find that the business models studied have the capacity to change themselves spontaneously and autonomously from executive-led decisions in response to external stimuli. We offer a novel theoretical insight by postulating the existence of complex adaptive business models and we advance knowledge in a way that is useful for practitioners by suggesting they perceive themselves as facilitators and orchestrators of business models rather than owners or even controllers of them.
This book argues that the capacity of a country to develop, and the levels of economic and social... more This book argues that the capacity of a country to develop, and the levels of economic and social development achieved, depend more on the institutional parameters within which the development policies are implemented than on the policies themselves. It contends that forces of globalisation influence individual countries' economic and social institutions.
Academy of Management Proceedings