Socioeconomic conditions for the emergence of business administrator

Abstract

In this study we present a historical reflection on the factors that led to the creation of the profession's business administrator, as well as precursors that have limited the spread of this nomenclature. We built this discussion, revisiting texts that present the thinkers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century who were instrumental in the formation of the foundations of the process of capitalist industrialization and the consequent institutionalization of knowledge and practice of business administrator. First, is the historical constitution of industrial capitalism that are observed socioeconomic conditions initial emergency administrator, initiated by the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe, where they appear the primitive elements of modern management practices and work organization, to advance late nineteenth century with the emergence of a second wave formed by a group of industrial engineers Americans intensified the debate on the systematization of principles of business administration as a basis for maturation of Taylor and Fayol ideas that at the beginning of the century XX consolidated the thought of the modern manager. This study aimed to contribute to the historical perspective in thinking of management and reflect on the genesis of the emergence of the administrator. In conclusion, we present some statements about the socioeconomic conditions that 5 allowed the emergence of the business administrator, and dare we determine a period of reflection from that proposed here on its historical construction.