Todd Bridgman & Stephen Cummings 
A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management Theory [PDF ebook] 

Chapter 1 Why another book on management theory?
Chapter 2 The Classical School: Looking again at the foundations of management theory
Chapter 3 Management theory discovers the human worker
Chapter 4 Fitting the worker to the organization: Personality, groups, teams and culture
Chapter 5 Heroic leaders and the glorification of change
Chapter 6 The rise of ethics and corporate social responsibility
Chapter 7 Conclusion: The past, present and future of management theory

Stephen Cummings (@theatomnz) is Professor of Strategy and Innovation and Co-Director of The Atom Innovation Space, at Victoria University of Wellington. He completed his Ph D at Warwick Business School. Stephen’s research investigates how assumptions about history can limit innovation and he is currently Co-Chair of the Critical Management Studies Division at The Academy of Management. His recent books include Handbook of Management and Creativity (Edward Elgar, 2014 – with Chris Bilton), Strategy Builder (Wiley, 2015 – with Duncan Angwin), A New History of Management (Cambridge University Press, 2015 – with Todd Bridgman, John Hassard and Michael Rowlinson), and the forthcoming A New History of Sustainable Management (Palgrave – with Todd Bridgman). His article, Unfreezing Change as Three Steps published in Human Relations (with Todd Bridgman and Kenneth Brown) has been downloaded over 200, 000 times.