1st Edition

Management Laureates A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 3)

Edited By Arthur G. Bedeian Copyright 1993
438 Pages
by Routledge

438 Pages
by Routledge

438 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1993. This volume compiles the autobiographies of the management discipline’s most distinguished laureates. Prior to this publication, the available management literature provided little insight into the personal and intellectual lives - the frustrations as well as the triumphs - of the individuals in the management discipline. Although such understanding could be conveyed in... Read more

Preface Arthur G. Bedeian; 1. An Unmanaged Pursuit of Management Lyman W. Porter 2. The Academic as Artist: Personal and Professional Roots Edgar H. Schein 3. "Watch Where You Step!" or Indiana Starbuck Amid the Perils of Academe (Rated PG) William H. Starbuck 4. My Roads to Management Theory and Practice George A. Steiner 5. Present at the Beginning: Some Personal Notes on OB’s Early Days and Later George Strauss 6. Guilty of Enthusiasm Eric L. Trist 7. Up the Management Mountain Stanley C. Vance 8. Improvising and Muddling Through Victor H. Vroom 9. Turning Context into Text: An Academic Life as Data Karl E. Weick 10. From Participant Observer to Participatory Action Researcher William Foote Whyte 11. From Practice to Theory: Odyssey of a Manager James C. Worthy

Biography

Arthur G. Bedeian