The founding stories of the administration in the face of global economic enrichment

This paper analyzes what the teaching of administration means —understood, this, as a profession— from a set of founding stories and reflects on how they have configured as a myth to study organizations. It details how from with the diffusion of those myths it is possible to evoke, but also hide the reason for the significant increase in material well-being that humanity has experienced for just over two centuries. To develop this argument, we develop three topics: the concept of myth, the evidence of the enrichment of the humanity since 1800, and the basic notions postulated by the accounts of the beginning of administration as a profession and science: Scientific Management, "Fordism" and Fayol's principles. The historical antecedents that remain ignored in this set of stories, both in their facts and in their meanings. Finally, we bring a brief reflection on whether these stories together shed light on the unprecedented transformation that the humankind has undergone.