Witzel M. The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists 2013

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Witzel M. The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists 2013

Textbook in PDF format Concurrent with the increasing complexity of the field of management, the need to re-examine the foundations from which its theories have advanced has become ever more important and useful. The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists examines and evaluates the contributions that seminal figures, past and present, have made to the theory of management by providing in-depth, up-to-date, and detailed scholarly analysis of their ideas and influence. Chapters by leading management and management history scholars explore the origins of each thinker or school of thought and their ideas, and discuss the significance and influence in a broader framework. The Handbook contextualises each theorist and their theories, analysing their actions, interactions, and re-actions to contemporary events and to each other. It is arranged in three parts: pioneers of management thinking from Frederick Taylor to Chester Barnard; post-war theorists, such as the Tavistock Institute and Edith Penrose; and the later phase of Business School theorists, including Alfred Chandler, Michael Porter, and Ikujiro Nonaka. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in how and why management ideas have emerged, and the ways in which they are currently developing and will evolve in the future. Introduction / Morgen Witzel and Malcolm Warner Pioneers Frederick Winslow Taylor / Robert F. Conti Mind, Method, and Motion: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth / Bernard Mees Henri Fayol / Jean-Louis Peaucelle and Cameron Guthrie Mary Parker Follett / John Child George Elton Mayo / Kyle Bruce Lyndall Urwick / Andrew Thomson and John Wilson Chester Barnard and the Systems Approach to Nurturing Organizations / Andrea Gabor and Joseph T. Mahoney Post-War Theorists The Tavistock Group / Frances Abraham Deeply Engaged, Intuitively Analytical and Determinedly Applied: Tom Burns and Joan Woodward in Context but not in Concert / Sandra Dawson W. Edwards Deming / Milan Zeleny The Life and Diverse Contributions of Dr J. M. Juran / Mohamed Zairi Edith Penrose’s Contribution to Economics and Management Scholarship / Christos N. Pitelis Peter F. Drucker / Peter Starbuck Herbert Alexander Simon: Philosopher of the Organizational Life-World / J.-C. Spender Business School Theorists Alfred Chandler’s Managerial Revolution: Developing and Utilizing Productive Resources / William Lazonick The Aston Studies: A Journey Towards a Science of Administration? / Ray Loveridge James March, Richard Cyert, and the Evolving Field of Organizations / Mie Augier Geert Hofstede / Monir Tayeb John Paul Kotter / Karl Moore and Alexandra Klein Henry Mintzberg / Morgen Witzel The Competitive Advantage of Michael Porter / John Mathews Ikujiro Nonaka / Robert Pitkethly Sumantra Ghoshal / Susan Segal-Horn C. K. Prahalad / Peter J. Williamson and Keeley Wilson Index