Regional Study of the Comparative Management Theory in the National Gas Distribution Business in Southeastern Nebraska

Abstract

Most approaches to the exploration and study of the "management theory jungle" reveal that virtually all theories approach the problem of management as an internal problem within a productive enterprise. Most students of management focus their attention on functions and principles of internal management in a given firm in a given environment seeking to determine how a firm might gain more effective and efficient operations. The firm may be said to be viewed as "fixed in time and space."