338 Pages
by
Routledge
340 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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Fifty Key Figures in Management is a collection of biographies of fifty people who have helped to make management what it is today - through their ideas, writings and teachings, through practical example and leadership, or both.
Featuring business leaders such as Henry Ford, Jack Welch and Bill Gates, all of whom were pioneers in business pratice, the book also includes thinkers and... Read more
1. Chris Argyris (1923 - ) 2. Richard Arkwright (1732-92) 3. Charles Babbage (1792-1871) 4. Tomas Bat'a (1876-1932) 5. Max Boisot (1943-) 6. James Burnham (1905-87) 7. Edward Cadbury (1873-1948) 8. Herbert N. Casson (1869-1951) 9. Alfred D. Chandler (1918-) 10. Arie de Geus (1930-) 11. W. Edwards Deming (1900-93) 12. Peter Drucker (1909-) 13. Pierre du Pont (1870-1954) 14. Harrington Emerson (1853-1931) 15. Henri Fayol (1841-1925) 16. Mary Parker Follett (1868 - 1933) 17. Henry Ford (1863-1947) 18. Jay Wright Forrester (1918-) 19. Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901) 20. Bill Gates (1955-) 21. Edwin Gay (1867-1946) 22. Frank Bunker Gilbreth (1868-1924) and Lillian Gilbreth (1878-1972) 23. Andrew Grove (1936-) 24. Charles Handy (1932-) 25. Henry J. Heinz (1844-1919) 26. Geert Hofstede (1928-) 27. Ibuka Masaru (1908-1997) 28. Philip Kotler (1931-) 29. Laozi (Lao Tzu) (6th century BC) 30. William Lever (1851-1925) 31. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) 32. Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) 33. Matsushita Konosuke (1884-1989) 34. Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) 35. Cosimo dei Medici (1389-1464) 36. Henry Mintzberg (1939-) 37. James D. Mooney (1884-1957) 38. Gareth Morgan (1943-) 39. J.P.Morgan (1837-1913) 40. Nonaka Ikujiro (1935-) 41. Ohmae Kenichi (1943-) 42. Robert Owen (1771-1858) 43. Tom Peters (1942-) 44. Michael Porter (1947-) 45. Herbert Simon (1916-2001) 46. Sunzi (Sun Tzu) (c. 4th century BC) 47. Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) 48. Toyoda Kiichiro (1894-1952) 49. Lyndall Fownes Urwick (1891-1983) 50. Jack Welch (1935-)
Biography
Morgen Witzel is a historian of management and writer on business, Editor in chief of Corporate Finance Review and Deputy Editor of Mastering Management Online.
'A fascinating set of cameos of management's major figures that will be most useful for both students and teachers of the subject.' - Professor Malcolm Warner, Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge
