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Listing of people[edit]

Fifty key figures in management (2004)[edit]

  • Source: Witzel, Morgen. Fifty key figures in management. Routledge, 2004.

Forbes: The Most Influential Management Gurus (2009)[edit]

Listing of Management publications[edit]

The 25 Most influential management books of the 20th century (2001)[edit]

  • The 25 Most influential management books of the 20th century
  1. Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management (1911)
  2. Chester I. Barnard, The Functions of the Executive (1938)
  3. Peter F. Drucker, The practice of Management (1954)
  4. Douglas McGregor, The Human Side of Enterprise (1960)
  5. Herbert A. Simon, Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-making Processes in Administrative Organization. With a Foreword by Chester I. Barnard (1947)
  6. Paul R. Lawrence and Jay W. Lorsch, Organization and environment: Managing differentiation and integration (1967).
  7. James G. March and Herbert A. Simon. Organizations. (1958).
  8. Abraham H. Maslow, Motivation and personality (1954)
  9. Michael E. Porter, Competitive strategy: Techniques for analyzing industries and competitors (1980)
  10. Fritz J. Roethlisberger and William J. Dickson, Management and the Worker (1939)
  11. Alfred D. Chandler. Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise (1962)
  12. Richard M. Cyert, and James G. March. A behavioral theory of the firm (1961).
  13. Max Weber, The theory of social and economic organization, 1922
  14. Daniel Katz and Robert L. Kahn. The social psychology of organizations, (1978).
  15. Chris Argyris Personality and organization; the conflict between system and the individual, (1957)
  16. Henri Fayol General and Industrial Management (1916)
  17. Rensis Likert New Patterns of Management (1961)
  18. Joan Woodward Industrial Organization: Theory and practice, (1965)
  19. Elton Mayo The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilisation, (1933)
  20. Tom Burns The Management of Innovation (1961)
  21. W. Edwards Deming Quality, Productivity and Competitive Position (1982)
  22. James D. Thompson Organization in Action (1967)
  23. George C. Homans The Human group (1950)
  24. David C. McClelland The Archiving Society (1961)
  25. Frederick Herzberg Bernard Mausner and Barbara B. Snyderman The motivation to work, (1959)

Most Influential Management Books (2002)[edit]

  • Most Influential Management Books
Rank Title. Author(s). Publisher, Year. Genre
  1. In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies. Thomas Peters, Robert H. Waterman. HarperCollins, 1982. Management
  2. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras. HarperCollins, 1994. Management
  3. Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution. Michael Hammer, James A. Champy. HarperCollins, 1993. Management
  4. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco. Bryan Burrough, John Helyar. HarperCollins, 1990. Narrative
  5. Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance. Michael E. Porter. Free Press. 1998 Management
  6. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Malcolm Gladwell. Little Brown, 2000. Narrative
  7. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Products to Mainstream Customers. Geoffrey A. Moore. HarperBusiness, 1999. Management
  8. The House of Morgan. Ron Chernow. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. Biography
  9. The Six Sigma Way. Peter S. Pande et al, Robert P. Neuman, Roland R. Cavanagh. McGraw-Hill, 2000. Management.
  10. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change. Stephen R. Covey. Simon & Schuster, 1990. Management
  11. Liar’s Poker. Michael Lewis. W.W. Norton, 1989. Narrative
  12. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Clayton M. Christensen. Harvard Business School Press, 1997. Management
  13. Japan Inc. Shotaro Ishinomori. University of California Press, 1988. Management
  14. Den of Thieves. James B. Stewart. Simon & Schuster, 1991. Narrative
  15. The Essential Drucker. Peter F. Drucker. HarperBusiness, 2001. Management
  16. Competing for the Future. Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad. Harvard Business School Press, 1994. Management
  17. The Buffett Way: Investment Strategies of the World’s Greatest Investor. Robert G. Hagstrom. John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Investing
  18. Jack: Straight from the Gut. Jack Welch, John A. Byrne. Warner, 2001. Biography
  19. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t. James Collins. HarperCollins, 2001. Management
  20. The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story. Michael Lewis. W.W. Norton, 2000. Narrative

25 Best Business Books Ever (2008)[edit]

  1. In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr., 1982
  2. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen, 1997
  3. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie, 1937
  4. The One-Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard and Spencer Johnson, 1981
  5. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey, 1989
  6. Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael E. Porter, 1980
  7. The Practice of Management. by Peter F. Drucker, 1954
  8. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras, 1994
  9. Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution by Michael Hammer and James Champy, 1993
  10. Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming, 1982
  11. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t by Jim Collins, 2001
  12. Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, 1994
  13. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell, 2000
  14. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Business Don’t Work and What to Do about It by Michael E. Gerber, 1985
  15. The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge, 1990
  16. My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., 1963
  17. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, 1990
  18. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Friedman, 2005
  19. The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowieki, 2004
  20. Organizational Culture and Leadership by Edgar H. Schein 1992
  21. Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise by Alfred D. Chandler, 1962
  22. The Human Side of Enterprise Douglas McGregor, 1960
  23. The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor, 1911
  24. The Functions of the Executive by Chester I. Barnard, 1968
  25. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, 1991
Sources: Perseus Publishing’s The Best Business Books Ever: The 100 Most Influential Management Books You’ll Never Have Time to Read, Forbes, Business Week, U.S. News & World Report, a variety of lists located around the Web, and our own subjective reading experiences;

Early and contemporary management authors[edit]

Early management authors (before 1945)[edit]

  • Source: Witzel, Morgen. Fifty key figures in management. Routledge, 2004.

Contemporary management authors[edit]

  • Source: Witzel, Morgen. Fifty key figures in management. Routledge, 2004.

Timeline of early management authors (before 1945)[edit]

Antiques[edit]

  • Laozi (Lao Tzu) (6th century BC)
  • Sunzi (Sun Tzu) (c. 4th century BC)

15-18th century[edit]

19th century[edit]

Early 20th century[edit]

  • Source: Witzel, Morgen. Fifty key figures in management. Routledge, 2004.

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