Lecture 02: The Organisation Of Business In Public

Lecture 02: The Organisation of Business in public culture (24 Jan)What was this lecture about?Introductory slideBefore industrialisationIndustry and organisationLate capitalism and chaos Before industrialisationOrganised business is a relatively recent phenomenonThe history of trade is olderChinese general Sun Tzu and the oldest known military treatise The revival of commerce (see: HYPERLINK "http://ezproxy.stir.ac.uk/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=4014016&site=ehost-live" Kieser, 1989)Crusades (from around 12th century)Guilds (around 12th - 15th century)Merchant guildsCraft guilds New set of forces (around 17th century)characterised as ethicsstandards for human conductScience (see: HYPERLINK "https://discoverlibrary.stir.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3035512" Shapin, 2008)Protestantism (see: Weber, 1930)Liberty (see: HYPERLINK "https://discoverlibrary.stir.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2921613" Shapin & Schaffer, 1985)Market (see: Smith, 1776) Industry and organisationIndustrial revolution (around 18th century)First railroad - Manchester to LiverpoolTelecommunications and action at a distance By the early 1830s, for the first time in human history, a person could travel faster than a galloping horse on land. The steam train revolutionized human existence by literally speeding up the pace of life.Railroads created the modern economy. The railroad with its speed and its certainty (the trains ran on schedules) made possible the rise of the factory and its system of mass production.With the development of the telegraph by Samuel F.B. Morse in 1844, coordinated action at a