CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- On the value of management history -- Speaking about management education -- The eighteenth century antecedents of bureaucracy, the Cameralists -- Timeless advice: Daniel Defoe and small business management -- British management theory and practice: the impact of Fayol -- Fads, stereotypes and management gurus: Fayol and Follett today -- Mary van Kleeck, Taylorism and the control of management knowledge -- Maslow: man interrupted: reading management theory in context -- Barnard on conflicts of responsibility -- Contextual implications for transformational and servant leadership -- Strategy in the Battle of Britain and strategic management theory -- Note from the publisher.