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From past to future
When analysing the evolution of management, the past times can be seen as certitude, while the future ones can be discussed in terms of work hypotheses. Scenarios have the great virtue of providing unlimited possibilities to treat future realities. We can talk about virtual realities as forms of manifestation of future contexts. If, by the end of the 19th century, we were talking about Fayol’s theories, nowadays we have the possibility to analyse such theories from the perspective of their validation within the real economy. It is obvious that the critical analysis is at hand rather than the construction of a system architecture able to reveal, in terms of reflection and experiments (with successes and failures), the evolution of miscellaneous phenomena.
