TY - GEN AU - KIECHEL, WALTER TI - Management century PY - 2012/// KW - MANAGEMENT N2 - If you want to pinpoint a place and time that the first glintsof th management century appeared on the horizon, you could do worse than Chicago, May 1886. There, to the recently formed American Socity of Mechanical Engineers, Henry R Towne, a cofounder of the Yale Lock Manufacturing Company, delivered an address titled The engineer as an economist ER -