Abstract

JURADO JURADO, Juan Carlos  and  DE J. GARCIA ESTRADA, Rodrigo. FROM THE FOUNDING ENTREPRENEUR TO THE MANAGER ON A SALARY: THE RISE OF MANAGERS IN THE WESTERN WORLD. Innovar [online]. 2021, vol.31, n.79, pp.43-56.  Epub Feb 17, 2021. ISSN 0121-5051.  https://doi.org/10.15446/innovar.v31n79.91957.

This paper reviews the literature on administrative theory (AT), economic history, social sciences, and organizational studies (OS). Given the pragmatic/functionalist focus of AT, this current naturalizes the managerial function of the business organization and does not conceptualize labor-capital hierarchical relations of subordination on which it is grounded. From a historical perspective, whose compressive approach converges with the interdisciplinary orientation of OS, we propose a critical-hermeneutical examination of the literature in the field in order to expose the historical conformation of the administrative function and the administrator between 1780 and 1920 in the Western civilization. We conclude that the administrative function was shaped as a constitutive element of the business organization that was initially assumed by the owner/founder, and later (1880-1920) by a complex of salaried managers. It was also found that the hierarchical organization of work between planning and execution was aimed at dismissing knowledge workers and at the control of the production process by managers, and that the rational/ functionalist conception of the organization was determined by historical conditions such as the requirements of the capitalist system to reproduce itself and the positivist conceptions of science.

Keywords : Salaried manager; founding entrepreneur; organizational studies; managerial function; management theory.

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