ABSTRACT
Could Melville Dalton get a job in a business school today? How would his study of managerial work be funded? Would his research be published? Would he remain on the margins of the business school or become an accepted and respected management researcher?1 This chapter considers the case of Melville Dalton, the Chicago School-trained industrial sociologist whose classic study of informal organization and unoffi cial rewards, Men Who Manage (1959), was published over 50 years ago.
