The Collapse of the American Management Mystique

The Collapse of the American Management Mystique. By Richard R. Locke New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xiv + 351 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0198774060

In The Collapse of the American Management Mystique Richard Locke offers a thoughtful, and at points provocative, assessment of what he sees as the rise and fall of the American model of management since the end of World War II. As the author of several important books on the relationship among higher education, entrepreneurship, and management in Europe and the United States, Locke is primarily interested in the cardinal questions of why management practices differ so much across countries, and …