Fifty Key Figures in Management (Routledge Key Guides)

✍ Scribed by Morgen Witzel

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 303
• Series: Routledge Key Guides
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 consultants who have helped to redefine the way we think about management, such as Ohmae Kenichi, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Tom Peters and Charles Handy. Moreover, new and emerging aspects of management are covered through the inclusion of such cutting-edge thinkers as Arie de Geus, Max Boisot and Nonaka Ikujiro.

Taken together, the fifty biographies presented here described how management emerged as a modern discipline and grew into its present form. Organization, strategy, marketing, production management, human resource management and knowledge management all come together to show how management is a multi-faceted discipline.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 6
COPYRIGHT......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 8
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF CONTENTS......Page 10
PREFACE......Page 12
MANAGEMENT THEMES......Page 16
CHRIS ARGYRIS (1923–)......Page 22
RICHARD ARKWRIGHT (1732–92)......Page 28
CHARLES BABBAGE (1792–1871)......Page 34
TOMAS BAT’A (1876–1932)......Page 40
MAX BOISOT (1943–)......Page 46
JAMES BURNHAM (1905–87)......Page 51
EDWARD CADBURY (1873–1948)......Page 56
HERBERT N.CASSON (1869–1951)......Page 61
ALFRED D.CHANDLER (1918–)......Page 68
ARIE DE GEUS (1930–)......Page 74
W.EDWARDS DEMING (1900–93)......Page 77
PETER DRUCKER (1909)......Page 82
PIERRE DU PONT (1870–1954)......Page 89
HARRINGTON EMERSON (1853–1931)......Page 95
HENRI FAYOL (1841–1925)......Page 102
MARY PARKER FOLLETT (1868–1933)......Page 107
HENRY FORD (1863–1947)......Page 113
JAY WRIGHT FORRESTER (1918–)......Page 120
FUKUZAWA YUKICHI (1835–1901)......Page 124
BILL GATES (1955–)......Page 130
EDWIN GAY (1867–1946)......Page 136
FRANK BUNKER GILBRETH (1868–1924) and LILLIAN GILBRETH (1878–1972)......Page 141
ANDREW GROVE (1936–)......Page 147
CHARLES HANDY (1932)......Page 152
HENRY J.HEINZ (1844–1919)......Page 158
GEERT HOFSTEDE (1928–)......Page 163
IBUKA MASARU (1908–97)......Page 167
PHILIP KOTLER (1931–)......Page 171
LAOZI (LAO TZU) (6th century BC)......Page 177
WILLIAM LEVER (1851–1925)......Page 181
NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI (1469–1527)......Page 186
MARSHALL McLUHAN (1911–80)......Page 190
ABRAHAM MASLOW (1908–70)......Page 195
MATSUSHITA KONOSUKE (1894–1989)......Page 200
COSIMO DEI MEDICI (1389–1464)......Page 204
HENRY MINTZBERG (1939–)......Page 209
JAMES D.MOONEY (1884–1957)......Page 214
GARETH MORGAN (1943)......Page 220
J.P.MORGAN (1837–1913)......Page 226
NONAKA IKUJIRO (1935–)......Page 232
OHMAE KENICHI (1943–)......Page 237
ROBERT OWEN (1771–1858)......Page 242
TOM PETERS (1942–)......Page 249
MICHAEL PORTER (1947–)......Page 254
HERBERT SIMON (1916–2001)......Page 259
SUNZI (SUN TZU) (c. 4th century BC)......Page 263
FREDERICK WINSLOW TAYLOR (1856–1915)......Page 267
TOYODA KIICHIRO (1894–1952)......Page 274
LYNDALL FOWNES URWICK (1891–1983)......Page 278
JACK WELCH (1935)......Page 284
FURTHER READING......Page 288
INDEX......Page 290