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356:(1867–1927) was one of the first to acknowledge the study of organizations as a separate fields of study. Hine wrote, that organization has been termed a smaller sister of sociology, the science of human nature. Industrial organization, including that of transportation and commerce, reflects and typifies in a greater or less degree the sociological development of a people.
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mechanical production. We have numbered among our contributors most of the great specialists in the practice of "Production
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635:(2007) recalled that "the embryonic engineering/management ideas that were published in these magazines were later collected and collated in books... These books were read by sociologists, psychologists, engineers, political scientists, and became the seedbed from which discourse on rational organizations grew."
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in all its branches, and is "certainly worthy of support by all who desire to keep pace with industrial development throughout the world."
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