From June 28 to July 7 the National Arts Festival took place in Grahamstown, South Africa. For the 20th time Cue, a daily print newspaper about the Festival, was produced by Rhodes University journalism students. It was the first time that the newspaper was printed in full color. Cue is at the core …

The years between 1900 and 1930 have been a crucial period for the formation of large organizations in the Western world. Managers and scholars were searching for appropriate business models given the institutional setting. This model has impacted (and still does) the way we look at organizations and …

Early 20th century management literature was very decisive about the role of efficiency; it was the ‘one best way’-criterion for organizational decision-making. This paper shows by means of a backward prediction that efficiency was indeed an important measure for organizations in the early 20th century. …