This is an annotated list of important business writers.The Harvard Business Review asked 200 management gurus—the business thinkers most often mentioned in the media and management literature—who their gurus were. For their responses, see ''

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* David Aaker (born 1938) -

marketing Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emph ...

, brand strategy * Wil van der Aalst * James Abegglen (1926–2007) - management and business in Japan * Bodo Abel * Russell L. Ackoff (1919–2009) -

operations research Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve decis ...

, organizational theory *

John Adair John Adair (January 9, 1757 – May 19, 1840) was an American pioneer, slave trader, soldier, and politician. He was the eighth Governor of Kentucky and represented the state in both the U.S. House and Senate. A native of South Carolina, Ada ...

(born 1934) -

leadership Leadership, both as a research area and as a practical skill, encompasses the ability of an individual, group or organization to "lead", influence or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations. The word "leadership" often gets vi ...

Karol Adamiecki Karol Adamiecki ( Dąbrowa Górnicza, 18 March 1866 – 16 May 1933, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish engineer, management researcher, economist, and professor. Life Karol Adamiecki was a prominent management researcher in Eastern and Central Eur ...

(1866–1933) - management *

Ichak Adizes Ichak Kalderon Adizes ( ) is a Yugoslav American business consultant and former tenured professor. Early life Ichak Adizes was born in North Macedonia. As a Jewish child during World War II, he hid in Albania as a Muslim for protection. The story ...

* Niclas Adler (born 1971) - Swedish organizational theorist * Charles Constance César Joseph Matthieu d'Agoult *

Yoji Akao was a Japanese planning specialist recognized as the developer of Hoshin Kanri (a strategic planning methodology). With the late Shigeru Mizuno, he developed Quality Function Deployment (a group decision making technique). Akao and Mizuno also co-f ...

* Ali Akdemir * Mark Albion (born 1951) - values-based business * Howard E. Aldrich (born 1940s) - American sociologist and organizational theorist * Leon P. Alford (1877–1942) - scientific management * Tim Ambler (born 1938) - marketing effectiveness * Igor Ansoff (1918–2002) - strategic management * Ingeman Arbnor * Chris Argyris (1923–2013) - learning systems,

learning organization In business management, a learning organization is a company that facilitates the learning of its members and continuously transforms itself.Pedler, M., Burgogyne, J. and Boydell, T. 1997. ''The Learning Company: A strategy for sustainable develop ...

* Horace Lucian Arnold (1837–1915) *

Neal Ashkanasy Neal M. Ashkanasy (born 5 June 1945) is an Australian academic best known for his work on emotions in the workplace. He was honored for his "service to tertiary education, to psychology and to the community." He began his career as a civil eng ...

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* Stephen R. Barley (born 1953) - technology, organizational change, organizational culture *

Chester Barnard Chester Irving Barnard (November 7, 1886 – June 7, 1961) was an American business executive, public administrator, and the author of pioneering work in management theory and organizational studies. His landmark 1938 book, ''The Functions of the ...

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management Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a Government agency, government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includ ...

Gary S. Becker Gary Stanley Becker (; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of ...

Charles Bedaux Charles Eugène Bedaux (10 October 1886 – 18 February 1944) was a French-American millionaire who made his fortune developing and implementing the work measurement aspect of scientific management, notably the Bedaux System. Bedaux was friend ...

(1886–1944) - scientific management * Warren Bennis (1925–2014) -

leadership studies Leadership studies is a multidisciplinary academic field of study that focuses on leadership in organizational contexts and in human life. Leadership studies has origins in the social sciences (e.g., sociology, anthropology, psychology), in ...

* Per Olof Berg (born 1946) - Swedish organizational theorist * Manfred Berliner * Björn Bjerke * Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett (1897–1974) -

* Ken Blanchard * Charles Bosanquet *

Matthew Boulton Matthew Boulton (; 3 September 172817 August 1809) was an English manufacturer and business partner of Scottish engineer James Watt. In the final quarter of the 18th century, the partnership installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engin ...

(1728–1809) -

labor productivity Workforce productivity is the amount of goods and services that a group of workers produce in a given amount of time. It is one of several types of productivity that economists measure. Workforce productivity, often referred to as labor product ...

Marvin Bower Marvin Bower (August 1, 1903 – January 22, 2003) was an American business theorist and management consultant associated with McKinsey & Company. Under Bower's leadership, McKinsey grew from a small engineering and accounting firm to a leader i ...

* Richard Boyatzis (born 1946) - emotional intelligence, behavior change, and competence * Leland Lawrence Briggs (1893–1975) - American accounting scholar * John Seely Brown * Wilfred Brown, Baron Brown * Nils Brunsson (born 1946) - institutionalized hypocrisy of organizations * Lawton Burns (born c. 1950) - health care systems

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* Noel Capon * Charles U. Carpenter * Jean-Luc Cerdin * James A. Champy - business process reengineering (1990s) *

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. (September 15, 1918 – May 9, 2007) was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporatio ...

, Pulitzer prize for ''The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business'' (1977) * Clayton M. Christensen *

Alexander Hamilton Church Alexander Hamilton Church (28 May 1866 – 11 February 1936) was an English efficiency engineer, accountant and writer on accountancy and management, known for his seminal work of management and cost accounting. Biography Church was born in U ...

- industrial management (1900s–1910s) * C. West Churchman * Stewart Clegg *

Ronald Coase Ronald Harry Coase (; 29 December 1910 – 2 September 2013) was a British economist and author. Coase received a bachelor of commerce degree (1932) and a PhD from the London School of Economics, where he was a member of the faculty until 1951. ...

transaction cost In economics and related disciplines, a transaction cost is a cost in making any economic trade when participating in a market. Oliver E. Williamson defines transaction costs as the costs of running an economic system of companies, and unlike pro ...

Coase theorem In law and economics, the Coase theorem () describes the economic efficiency of an economic allocation or outcome in the presence of externalities. The theorem states that if trade in an externality is possible and there are sufficiently low tra ...

theory of the firm The theory of the firm consists of a number of economic theories that explain and predict the nature of the firm, company, or corporation, including its existence, behaviour, structure, and relationship to the market. Firms are key drivers in ec ...

(1950s) (Nobel Prize in 1991) * James C. Collins -

vision statement A vision statement is an inspirational statement of an idealistic emotional future of a company or group. Vision describes the basic human emotion that a founder intends to be experienced by the people the organization interacts with. The Infinit ...

, strategic planning and BHAG (1990s) * Morris Llewellyn Cooke *

Cary Cooper Sir Cary Lynn Cooper (born 28 April 1940), is an American-born British psychologist and 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Before moving to Mancheste ...

* Stephen Covey * Philip B. Crosby *

Richard Cyert Richard Michael Cyert (July 22, 1921 – October 7, 1998) was an American economist, statistician and organizational theorist, who served as the sixth President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. He is known ...

Barbara Czarniawska Barbara Czarniawska (also known as Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges; born in 1948 in Białystok, People's Republic of Poland, Poland) is an organization scholar. At present, she is a Senior Professor of Management Studies at Gothenburg Research Insti ...

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Robert Dahlstrom Robert F. Dahlstrom (born c. 1958) is an American organizational theorist who is the Seibert Professor in the Miami University Department of Marketing. known for his work on international marketing. Education Dahlstrom obtained a Bachelor of B ...

(born 1958) - American organizational theorist, works on international marketing *

David Dale David Dale (6 January 1739–7 March 1806) was a leading Scottish industrialist, merchant and philanthropist during the Scottish Enlightenment period at the end of the 18th century. He was a successful entrepreneur in a number of areas, m ...

* Thomas H. Davenport * George S. Day -

(1970s) * Jeff DeGraff * Morris H. DeGroot *

W. Edwards Deming William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 – December 20, 1993) was an American engineer, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant. Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical ...

statistical quality control Statistical process control (SPC) or statistical quality control (SQC) is the application of statistical methods to monitor and control the quality of a production process. This helps to ensure that the process operates efficiently, producing ...

(1950s, 1960s) *

Daniel R. Denison Daniel "Dan" R. Denison is professor of organization and management at IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland, and chairman and founding partner of Denison Consulting.

* Eric Dent * Hugo Diemer -

industrial engineering Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information a ...

(1910s) *

Jan Dietz Jean Leonardus Gerardus (Jan) Dietz (born 20 June 1945) is a Dutch Information systems researcher, Emeritus Professor of Information Systems Design, and part-time Professor of Enterprise Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, known for ...

Patrick Dixon Patrick Dixon (born 1957) is an author and business consultant, often described as a futurist, and chairman of the trends forecasting company Global Change Ltd.Ciaran Parker, ''The Thinkers 50''. Praeger Publishers, 2005. He is also founder ...

Henk van Dongen Henricus Joannes (Henk) van Dongen (May 9, 1936 in Delden – March 7, 2011 Vierhouten) was a Dutch organizational theorist, policy advisor, and University Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management and one of its founders. He is noted for ...

* Sytse Douma * Wiebe Draijer *

Peter Drucker Peter Ferdinand Drucker (; ; November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was an Austrian-American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business co ...

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(1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s) * Anna Dubois (born 1962) - Swedish organizational theorist * Peter Dunn

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* Andrew S.C. Ehrenberg *

Michael Eisner Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) is an American businessman and former chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Walt Disney Company from September 1984 to September 2005. Prior to Disney, Eisner was president of rival film st ...

* Chester Elton * Tunç Erem * Richard F. Ericson * Hans-Erik Eriksson (born 1961) - Swedish computer scientist and organizational theorist *

Agner Krarup Erlang Agner Krarup Erlang (1 January 1878 – 3 February 1929) was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory. By the time of his relatively early death at the age of 51, Er ...

* Hamid Etemad

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Henri Fayol Henri Fayol (29 July 1841 – 19 November 1925) was a French mining engineer, mining executive, author and director of mines who developed a general theory of business administration that is often called Fayolism.Morgen Witzel (2003). ''Fifty key ...

(1910s) * Armand V. Feigenbaum - quality control (1950s) *

Tim Ferriss Timothy Ferriss (born July 20, 1977) is an American entrepreneur, investor, author, podcaster, and lifestyle guru. He became well-known through his ''4-Hour'' self-help book series—including ''The 4-Hour Work Week'', ''The 4-Hour Body'', and '' ...

* Harry Anson Finney (1886–1966) - American accountancy author *

Ronald Fisher Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic. For his work in statistics, he has been described as "a genius who ...

- statistics (1920s) * Mary Follett -

organizational studies Organization studies (also called organization science or organizational studies) is the academic field interested in a ''collective activity, and how it relates to organization, organizing, and management''. It is "the examination of how individua ...

(1930s) * Nicolai J. Foss * R. Edward Freeman * Mike L. Fry * Adrian Furnham

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John Kenneth Galbraith John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through t ...

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The New Industrial State ''The New Industrial State'' is a 1967 book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Three revised editions appeared in 1972, 1978 and 1985. Discussion In it, Galbraith asserts that within the industrial sectors of modern capitalist societies, the traditiona ...

'' (1967) *

Henry Gantt Henry Laurence Gantt (; May 20, 1861 – November 23, 1919) was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant who is best known for his work in the development of scientific management. He created the Gantt chart in the 1910s. Gan ...

Gantt chart A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule, named after its popularizer, Henry Gantt (1861–1919), who designed such a chart around the years 1910–1915. Modern Gantt charts also show the dependency relationshi ...

(20th century) * Burleigh B. Gardner (1902–1985) - motivation research * Michael Gerber - '' E-Myth Revisited'' * Jamshid Gharajedaghi (born 1940) - American organizational theorist, management consultant, and Adjunct Professor of Systems Thinking *

Sumantra Ghoshal Sumantra Ghoshal (26 September 19483 March 2004) was an Indian scholar and educator. He served as a Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School, and was the founding Dean of the Indian School of Business in ...

* John P. van Gigch * Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. *

Frank Gilbreth Frank Bunker Gilbreth (July 7, 1868 – June 14, 1924) was an American engineer, consultant, and author known as an early advocate of scientific management and a pioneer of time and motion study, and is perhaps best known as the father and ce ...

time and motion study A time and motion study (or time-motion study) is a business efficiency technique combining the Time Study work of Frederick Winslow Taylor with the Motion Study work of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth (the same couple as is best known through the biog ...

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Seth Godin Seth W. Godin is an American author and former dot com business executive. Background After leaving Spinnaker in 1986, he used $20,000 in savings to found Seth Godin Productions, primarily a book packaging business, out of a studio apartment i ...

* Eliyahu M. Goldratt - theory of constraints (1980s) *

Marshall Goldsmith Marshall Goldsmith (born March 20, 1949) is an American executive leadership coach and author. Early life and education Goldsmith was born in Valley Station, Kentucky, and received a degree in mathematical economics from Rose-Hulman Institute o ...

Daniel Goleman Daniel Goleman (born March 7, 1946) is an author, psychologist, and science journalist. For twelve years, he wrote for ''The New York Times'', reporting on the brain and behavioral sciences. His 1995 book ''Emotional Intelligence'' was on ''Th ...

* Vytautas Andrius Graiciunas -

(1933) *

Lynda Gratton Lynda Gratton (born February 1955) a British organizational theorist, consultant, and Professor of Management Practice at London Business School and the founder oHSM Advisory known for her work on organisational behaviour. Biography Born in ...

* C. Jackson Grayson * Danny Greefhorst (born 1972) - Dutch enterprise architect *

Miriam Green Miriam Green (born c.1950) is a South-African/British organizational theorist, and Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies in the Department of Management and Professional Development at London Metropolitan University from 1980 to 2008.London ...

* James Bray Griffith (1871–1937) - American business theorist * William H. Gruber (born 1935) - American organizational theorist *

Erich Gutenberg Erich Gutenberg (13 December 1897 in Herford – 22 May 1984 in Cologne) was an influential German economist. He is considered the founder of modern German business studies after World War II. Gutenberg used microeconomy to explain the functionin ...

(1950s)

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* Stephan H. Haeckel * Stephen G. Haines *

Noel Frederick Hall Noel Frederick Hall (1902–1983) was an economist and academic who was one of Britain's earliest post-war specialists in business theory and education. He was Professor of Political Economy at University College London, co-founder of what is no ...

Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is an American executive and author. He is the co-founder oPropeller a venture capital fund targeting climate change through investment in the earth's most precious resource, its oceans. He is the co-founder and executive chairman ...

Gary Hamel Gary P. Hamel (born 1954) is an American management consultant. He is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago. Biography Hamel graduated from Andrews University in 1975, and from Ross School of Bus ...

(born 1954) -

core competency A core competency is a concept in management theory introduced by C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel.Prahalad, C.K. and Hamel, G. (1990)The core competence of the corporation", Harvard Business Review (v. 68, no. 3) pp. 79–91. It can be defined ...

, strategic management (1990s) * Michael Hammer - business process reengineering (1990s) * Charles Handy - organisational behaviour (1990s) * Paul Harmon - management author * G. Charter Harrison (1881–1959) - Anglo-American management consultant and cost account pioneer * Sven A. Haugland (born 1948) - Norwegian organizational theorist * David L. Hawk * Igor Hawryszkiewycz (born 1948) - American computer scientist and organizational theorist * Robert Heller *

Frederick Herzberg Frederick Irving Herzberg (April 18, 1923 – January 19, 2000) was an American psychologist who became one of the most influential names in business management. He is most famous for introducing job enrichment and the Motivator-Hygiene theory ...

two factor theory The two-factor theory (also known as Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory and dual-factor theory) states that there are certain factors in the workplace that cause job satisfaction while a separate set of factors cause dissatisfaction, all of whi ...

, motivation theory,

job enrichment Job enrichment is a method of motivating employees where a job is designed to have interesting and challenging tasks which can require more skill and can increase pay. Origin Frederick Herzberg, an American psychologist, originally developed the ...

(1970s) * Steen Hildebrandt * Charles DeLano Hine *

Geert Hofstede Gerard Hendrik (Geert) Hofstede (2 October 1928 – 12 February 2020) was a Dutch social psychologist, IBM employee, and Professor Emeritus of Organizational Anthropology and International Management at Maastricht University in the Nether ...

* Kenneth Hopper * Yasheng Huang * Albert S Humphrey - strategic planning,

SWOT analysis SWOT analysis (or SWOT matrix) is a strategic planning and strategic management technique used to help a person or organization identify Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats related to business competition or project planning. It ...

(1970s, 1980s) * Shelby D. Hunt *

Walter Hunziker Walter Hunziker (1899–1974) was a Swiss professor who founded the Tourism Research Institute at the University of St. Gallen, co-developed the scientific study of tourism, developed the travel savings fund concept, co-founded the Association Int ...

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* Masaaki Imai (born 1930) - Kaizen (continuous improvement) (1980s, 1990s, 2000s) * Anders Indset (born 1978) *

Kaoru Ishikawa was a Japanese organizational theorist and a professor in the engineering faculty at the University of Tokyo noted for his quality management innovations. He is considered a key figure in the development of quality initiatives in Japan, particul ...

(1915–1989) -

Ishikawa diagram Ishikawa diagrams (also called fishbone diagrams, herringbone diagrams, cause-and-effect diagrams) are causal diagrams created by Kaoru Ishikawa that show the potential causes of a specific event. Common uses of the Ishikawa diagram are product ...

industrial process Industrial processes are procedures involving chemical, physical, electrical or mechanical steps to aid in the manufacturing of an item or items, usually carried out on a very large scale. Industrial processes are the key components of heavy in ...

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quality circle A quality circle or quality control circle is a group of workers who do the same or similar work, who meet regularly to identify, analyze and solve work-related problems. It consists of minimum three and maximum twelve members in number. Normally ...

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* Mike Jackson - systems scientist * Lars Jaeger * John Jantsch * Dave Jenks *

Anita Jose Anita Jose (born 1960-1970s) is an Indian-born educator, business strategist, Professor of Management at Hood College, and essayist in the field of business management and policy.http://www.mediate.com/people/personprofile.cfm?auid=720 Life and ...

Joseph M. Juran Joseph Moses Juran (December 24, 1904 – February 28, 2008) was a Romanian-born American engineer and management consultant. He was an evangelist for quality and quality management, having written several books on those subjects. He was the brot ...

(1904–2008) - quality control, especially

s (1960s, 1970s)

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter Rosabeth Moss Kanter (born March 15, 1943) is the Ernest L. Arbuckle professor of business at Harvard Business School.

- business management and change management (1977) * Robert S. Kaplan -

management accounting In management accounting or managerial accounting, managers use accounting information in decision-making and to assist in the management and performance of their control functions. Definition One simple definition of management accounting is th ...

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balanced scorecard A balanced scorecard is a strategy performance management tool – a well structured report, that can be used by managers to keep track of the execution of activities by the staff within their control and to monitor the consequences arising from ...

(1990s) * Dexter Keezer *

Kevin Lane Keller Kevin Lane Keller (born June 23, 1956) is the E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing at the Cuenca´s University of social science at Universidad de Castilla La-Mancha. He is most notable for having authored ''Strategic Brand Management'' (Prenti ...

* Roy B. Kester (1882–1965) - American accountancy scholar * Tarun Khanna * Walter Kickert (born 1950) - Dutch academic and Professor of Public Management * John Warren Kindt * Charles Edward Knoeppel *

Richard Koch Richard John Koch (born 28 July 1950 in London) is a British management consultant, venture capital investor and author of books on management, marketing and lifestyle. Career Koch has an M.A. from Oxford University and an M.B.A. from T ...

Lars Kolind Lars Kolind (born 5 May 1947) is a Danish businessman. Kolind holds an M.Sc. in Mathematics from Aarhus University from 1972 and a B.Comm. from the Copenhagen Business School from 1977. He is adjunct professor of leadership and strategy at ...

Monika Kostera Monika Maria Kostera (born 28 February 1963) is a Polish sociologist of management. She is known for her contribution to organization theory, organizational Archetype, archetypes and Myth, myths, storytelling and narrative analysis in Organization ...

Philip Kotler Philip Kotler (born May 27, 1931) is an American marketing author, consultant, and professor emeritus; the S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University ...

marketing management Marketing management is the organizational discipline which focuses on the practical application of marketing orientation, techniques and methods inside enterprises and organizations and on the management of a firm's marketing resources and ac ...

and social marketing (1970s, 1980s, 1990s) *

John Kotter John Paul Kotter is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School, an author, and the founder of Kotter International, a management consulting firm based in Seattle and Boston. He is a thought leader ...

- organizational behaviour and

(1980s, 1990s) * Joe Kutchera (born 1970), American author, columnist and marketing executive *

Vladimir Kvint Vladimir L’vovich Kvint ( Russian: Владимир Львович Квинт) is a Russian-American economist and strategist, and President of the International Academy of Emerging Markets. In parallel, since 2007, he has been the Chair of the ...

- strategy

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* John Christian Langli * Jean-Claude Larréché * Kyoung Jun Lee * William Henry Leffingwell -

office management Office management is a profession involving the design, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of the process of work within an office or other organization, in order to sustain and improve efficiency and productivity. Office management i ...

(1910s–1940s) * Paul Leonardi * Harry Levinson * Theodore Levitt -

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globalization Globalization, or globalisation (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English; American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization), see spelling differences), is the process of foreign relation ...

(1960s, 1970s) *

Michael Lewis Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) Gale Biography In Context. is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to ''Vanity Fair'' since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He ...

* Peter Lindgren (born 1961) - Danish organizational theorist * John Lintner - capital asset pricing model (1970s) * Ted London *

Juan Antonio Pérez López Juan Antonio Pérez López (1934–1996) was a Spanish business theorist. He was professor of ''Organizational Behavior'' at the IESE Business School (Spain), where he became Dean (1978–1984). He was also a visiting professor at PAD Business Sc ...

Jay Lorsch Jay William Lorsch (born 1932) is an American organizational theorist and the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School, known for his contribution of contingency theory to the field of organizational behavior. B ...

* Michael Lounsbury *

Randi Lunnan Randi Lunnan (born 1963) is a Norwegian organizational theorist, and Professor at the Department of Strategy of the BI Norwegian Business School, known for her work on international strategic alliances and management of international corporations. ...

(born 1963) - Norwegian organizational theorist, works on strategic alliances * Reijo Luostarinen (1939–2017) - Finnish organisational theorist *

James Alexander Lyons James Alexander Lyons (1861–1920) was an American accountancy author, and publisher, known for publishing a series of books on bookkeeping and accountancy in the early 20th century. The first work Lyons published was the 1896 textbook entitled ''A ...

(1861–1920) - American accountancy author

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John Van Maanen John Eastin Van Maanen (born 1943) is an American organizational theorist, Professor of Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and best known for his contributions to qualitative studies in management and to organizational ethn ...

* James MacGregor Burns * Kenneth D. Mackenzie * Teemu Malmi (born 1965) - Finnish organizational theorist * Vincent Mangematin * James G. March -

(1960s) * Constantinos Markides - strategic management and strategy dynamics (1990s) *

Harry Markowitz Harry Max Markowitz (born August 24, 1927) is an American economist who received the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Markowitz is a professor of finance at the Rady School of Management ...

modern portfolio theory Modern portfolio theory (MPT), or mean-variance analysis, is a mathematical framework for assembling a portfolio of assets such that the expected return is maximized for a given level of risk. It is a formalization and extension of diversificati ...

(1960s, 1970s), Nobel Prize in 1990 * Perry Marshall * John C. Maxwell -

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Elton Mayo George Elton Mayo (26 December 1880 – 7 September 1949) was an Australian born psychologist, industrial researcher, and organizational theorist.Cullen, David O'Donald. ''A new way of statecraft: The career of Elton Mayo and the development ...

job satisfaction Job satisfaction, employee satisfaction or work satisfaction is a measure of workers' contentedness with their job, whether they like the job or individual aspects or facets of jobs, such as nature of work or supervision. Job satisfaction can be ...

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Hawthorne effect The Hawthorne effect is a type of reactivity in which individuals modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed. The effect was discovered in the context of research conducted at the Hawthorne Western Electric ...

(1920s, 1930s) * John H. McArthur * Daniel McCallum -

organizational chart An organizational chart, also called organigram, organogram, or organizational breakdown structure (OBS) is a diagram that shows the structure of an organization and the relationships and relative ranks of its parts and positions/jobs. The term ...

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Douglas McGregor Douglas Murray McGregor (September 6, 1906 – October 1, 1964) was an American management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954. He also taught at the Indian Institute of Management ...

* Dalton McGuinty, Sr. * Geoff Meeks (born 1949) - British accounting scholar * Lucas Meijs * Leo Melamed -

currency future A currency future, also known as an FX future or a foreign exchange future, is a futures contract to exchange one currency for another at a specified date in the future at a price (exchange rate) that is fixed on the purchase date; see Foreign exc ...

s and derivatives (1980s, 1990s) *

Gary Metcalf Gary S. Metcalf (born 1957) is an American systems scientist, organizational theorist, management consultant, and university professor. He has served as president of the International Federation for Systems Research 2010-2014. Biography Raised ...

* Henry C. Metcalf - the science of administration (1920s) * Henry Metcalfe - the science of administration (1880s) *

Gerald Midgley Gerald Robert Midgley (born 1960) is a British organizational theorist, professor of systems thinking, director of the Centre for Systems Studies at the University of Hull, and past president (2013-2014) of the International Society for the Syst ...

* Danny Miller - economist * Merton Miller -

Modigliani–Miller theorem The Modigliani–Miller theorem (of Franco Modigliani, Merton Miller) is an influential element of economic theory; it forms the basis for modern thinking on capital structure. The basic theorem states that in the absence of taxes, bankruptcy c ...

and corporate finance (1970s) *

Henry Mintzberg Henry Mintzberg (born September 2, 1939) is a Canadian academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, ...

(born 1939) - organizational architecture, strategic management (1970s–2000s) *

Franco Modigliani Franco Modigliani (18 June 1918 – 25 September 2003) was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Carnegie Mellon Un ...

- Modigliani–Miller theorem and corporate finance (1970s) * Geoffrey Moore * Richard Moran * Gareth Morgan * Gerry Morgan *

Silvina Moschini Silvina Moschini (born 1972) is an Argentine entrepreneur. As a businesswoman, she is the founder of Yandiki, SheWorks!, and Intuic and the president of KMGi Group. As an analyst of Internet trends, she appears on networks including CNN en Esp ...

* Hugo Münsterberg - psychology of work (1910s) * J. Keith Murnighan * Christa Muth

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* Peter Naudé - marketing and

business network A business network is a complex network of companies, working together to accomplish certain objectives. These objectives, which are strategic and operational, are adopted by business networks based on their role in the market. There are two categ ...

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Nicholas Negroponte Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek American architect. He is the founder and chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). Negroponte ...

- human-computer interaction (1970s–1990s) * Nobuo Noda - Japanese business scholar * Kjell A. Nordström *

Arne Nygaard Arne Nygaard (born 17 May 1957) is a Norwegian organizational theorist best known for his work with Robert Dahlstrom on transaction costs in franchising. Biography Nygaard obtained his Master of Business and Economics (MBE) at the BI Norwegian ...

(born 1957) - Norwegian organizational theorist

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* George S. Odiorne -

management by objectives Management by objectives (MBO), also known as management by planning (MBP), was first popularized by Peter Drucker in his 1954 book ''The Practice of Management''.Drucker, P., ''The Practice of Management'', Harper, New York, 1954; Heinemann, London ...

Kenichi Ohmae is a Japanese organizational theorist, management consultant, Former Professor and Dean of UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, and author, known for developing the 3C's Model. Biography Born in 1943 in Kitakyūshū, Ohmae earned a BS in ...

- 3C's model and strategic management (1970s, 1980s) *

Taiichi Ohno was a Japanese industrial engineer and businessman. He is considered to be the father of the Toyota Production System, which inspired Lean Manufacturing in the U.S. He devised the seven wastes (or muda in Japanese) as part of this system. He ...

Toyota Production System The Toyota Production System (TPS) is an integrated socio-technical system, developed by Toyota, that comprises its management philosophy and practices. The TPS is a management system that organizes manufacturing and logistics for the automobile m ...

, lean manufacturing, just in time (1980s) *

David Ogilvy David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

advertising Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service. Advertising aims to put a product or service in the spotlight in hopes of drawing it attention from consumers. It is typically used to promote a ...

(1960s–1980s) * Sharon Oster *

William Ouchi William G. "Bill" Ouchi (born 1943) is an American professor and author in the field of business management. He is the Distinguished Professor of Management and Organizations, Sanford and Betty Sigoloff Chair in Corporate Renewal at the UCLA Ander ...

Theory Z Theory Z is a name for various theories of human motivation built on Douglas McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y. Theories X, Y and various versions of Z have been used in human resource management, organizational behavior, organizational communicat ...

(1980s) * Robert Owen -

cooperative A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-contro ...

s (1810s)

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* Luca Pacioli -

double-entry bookkeeping system Double-entry bookkeeping, also known as double-entry accounting, is a method of bookkeeping that relies on a two-sided accounting entry to maintain financial information. Every entry to an account requires a corresponding and opposite entry to ...

and

financial statements Financial statements (or financial reports) are formal records of the financial activities and position of a business, person, or other entity. Relevant financial information is presented in a structured manner and in a form which is easy to un ...

(1494) *

Javier Perez-Capdevila Javier Perez-Capdevila (born February 7, 1963) is a Cuban scientist, mathematician and professor, known for the introduction of the operation mixed mixtures of fuzzy sets, among other theoretical contributions to fuzzy mathematics, as well as to i ...

- strategic management and business analysis and valuation * Krishna Palepu - business analysis and valuation,

Scott Patterson Scott Gordon Patterson (born September 11, 1958) is an American actor and musician. He is known for his role as Luke Danes in ''Gilmore Girls'' and as Special Agent Peter Strahm in the ''Saw'' films. He also starred as Michael Buchanan in the ...

Keith Pavitt Keith Pavitt (January 13, 1937, in London – December 20, 2002, in Lewes, East Sussex) was an English scholar in the field of Science and Technology Policy and Innovation Management. He was professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Sci ...

- innovation clusters and innovation taxonomy (1970s through 2000) *

Edith Penrose Edith Elura Tilton Penrose (November 15, 1914 – October 11, 1996) was an American-born British economist whose best known work is ''The Theory of the Growth of the Firm'', which describes the ways which firms grow and how fast they do. Wr ...

- ''The Theory of the Growth of the Firm'' (1959) *

- negative learning (1990s) * Oscar E. Perrigo - shop management (1900s) * Laurence J. Peter -

Peter Principle The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until ...

(1970s) * Thomas J. Peters -

(1970s, 1980s) * Jeffrey Pfeffer - organizational development (1970s–?) * Robert Allen Phillips * Rebecca Piekkari (born 1967) - Finnish organizational theorist * Henry Varnum Poor - principles of organization (1850s–?) *

Michael Porter Michael Eugene Porter (born May 23, 1947) is an American academic known for his theories on economics, business strategy, and social causes. He is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School, and he was one of t ...

- strategic management and Porter's 5 forces (1970s–1990s) * C. K. Prahalad (1941–2010) -

(1980s) *

Derek S. Pugh Derek Salman Pugh (31 August 1930 – 29 January 2015) was a British psychologist, business theorist and Emeritus Professor of International Management at the Open University, known for his work in the field of organisational development (OD), a ...

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* J. Donald R. de Raadt *

Navi Radjou Navi Radjou (born 14 August 1970) is an Indian born scholar and an innovation and leadership advisor based in Silicon Valley. He is a Fellow of Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and has spoken and written widely on the theme ...

* N. Ravichandaran *

Jeffrey Rayport Jeffrey F. Rayport is an academic, author, consultant, and founder and chairman of Marketspace LLC, a strategic advisory practice that works with leading companies to reinvent how they interact with and relate to customers. Marketspace was a unit o ...

W. Charles Redding W. Charles Redding (April 13, 1914 – June 10, 1994) is credited as being the "father" of organizational communication. Redding played a significant role in both the creation and study of the field of Organizational Communication. Redding describe ...

Robert Reich Robert Bernard Reich (; born June 24, 1946) is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator. He worked in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and served as Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in ...

* Fred Reichheld *

Reg Revans Reginald William Revans (14 May 1907 – 8 January 2003) was an academic professor, administrator and management consultant who pioneered the use of Action learning. He was also a long jumper who represented Britain at the 1928 Sum ...

Jeremy Rifkin Jeremy Rifkin (born January 26, 1945) is an American economic and social theorist, writer, public speaker, political advisor, and activist. Rifkin is the author of 23 books about the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, ...

* Fritz Roethlisberger * Georges Romme *

Mike Rother Mike Rother (born 1958, Michigan, USA) is an American researcher. He introduced the widespread business practices of ''Value Stream Mapping'' and Toyota Kata (Improvement Kata + Coaching Kata). He has been affiliated with the Industrial Technol ...

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* Martti Saario (1906–1988) - Finnish organizational theorist and Professor of Accounting *

Kenan Sahin Kenan Eyüp Şahin, (commonly known as Kenan Sahin) is a Turkish-born American scientist and entrepreneur. He is the founder, President and the Chief Technology Officer of TIAX LLC in Lexington, Massachusetts. He is also the founder and CEO of C ...

* Mohammad Ali Sarlak * Jason Saul * August-Wilhelm Scheer * Edgar Schein *

Eugen Schmalenbach Eugen Schmalenbach (20 August 1873 – 20 February 1955) was a German academic and economist. He was born in Halver, and attended the Leipzig College of Commerce starting in 1898. That college later became part of Leipzig University, only to e ...

- economic value added (1920s–?) * Hein Schreuder * David Meerman Scott (born 1961) - inbound marketing and PR in the Internet era (2008-) *

Walter Dill Scott Walter Dill Scott (May 1, 1869 – September 24, 1955) was one of the first applied psychologists. He applied psychology to various business practices such as personnel selection and advertising. Early life Scott was born in Cooksville, Illino ...

- psychology of personnel management (1920s) * Esbjörn Segelod (born 1951) - Swedish organizational theorist *

Peter Senge Peter Michael Senge (born 1947) is an American systems scientist who is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute, and the founder of the Society for Organizational Learning ...

Dorian Shainin Dorian Shainin (September 26, 1914 – January 7, 2000) was an American quality consultant, aeronautics engineer, author, and college professor most notable for his contributions in the fields of industrial problem solving, product reliability, and ...

* Stanley J. Shapiro * Seena Sharp *

Oliver Sheldon Oliver Sheldon (1894–1951) was a director of the Rowntree's in York, England. He wrote on principles of public and business administration in the 1920s. Life Oliver Sheldon was born on 13 July 1894. He was educated at King's College Schoo ...

- business philosophy (1920s) * Walter A. Shewhart -

control chart Control charts is a graph used in production control to determine whether quality and manufacturing processes are being controlled under stable conditions. (ISO 7870-1) The hourly status is arranged on the graph, and the occurrence of abnormalit ...

s (1920s–1930s) *

Shigeo Shingo was a Japanese industrial engineer who was considered as the world’s leading expert on manufacturing practices and the Toyota Production System. Life and work After having worked as a technician specializing in fusions at the Taiwanese railw ...

(1909–1990) - Zero Quality Control (

Poka-Yoke is a Japanese term that means "mistake-proofing" or "inadvertent error prevention". A poka-yoke is any mechanism in a process that helps an equipment operator avoid (''yokeru'') mistakes (''poka'') and defects by preventing, correcting, or drawing ...

) and Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) *

Herbert A. Simon Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist, with a Ph.D. in political science, whose work also influenced the fields of computer science, economics, and cognitive psychology. His primary ...

(1916–2001) -

satisficing Satisficing is a decision-making strategy or cognitive heuristic that entails searching through the available alternatives until an acceptability threshold is met. The term ''satisficing'', a portmanteau of ''satisfy'' and ''suffice'', was introduc ...

Nobel Prize, 1978 *

Ibrahim Sirkeci İbrahim Sirkeci (born 1972, Izmir, Turkey) is a British Turkish social scientist, Professor at various British universities. He previously worked at the European Business School London, Regent's University London, and was the Director of Re ...

* Adrian Slywotzky -

marketing strategy Marketing strategy allows organizations to focus limited resources on best opportunities to increase sales and achieve a competitive advantage in the market. Strategic marketing emerged in the 1970s/80s as a distinct field of study, further buil ...

(1990s) * Linda Smircich * Adam Smith -

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

capitalism Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price system, priva ...

free trade Free trade is a trade policy that does not restrict imports or exports. It can also be understood as the free market idea applied to international trade. In government, free trade is predominantly advocated by political parties that hold econ ...

(1770s) * Ivan Snehota (1946–2022) - Czechoslovakian-born Italian organizational theorist * Henk G. Sol * Rolf Solli * Thomas J. Stanley * Andy Stefanovich * Victor Hermann Stempf (1893–1946) - American accountant * Joel Stern - economic value added (1980s) * Rosemary Stewart - business theorist * Antonio Strati *

Robert I. Sutton Robert I. Sutton (born 1954 in Chicago) is a professor of management science at the Stanford University School of Engineering and a researcher in the field of evidence-based management. He is a ''New York Times'' best-selling author.

* G. A. Swanson * Richard A. Swanson * William R. Synnott

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Genichi Taguchi was an engineer and statistician. From the 1950s onwards, Taguchi developed a methodology for applying statistics to improve the quality of manufactured goods. Taguchi methods have been controversial among some conventional Western statisticians, ...

(1924–2012) - Taguchi methods, quality control *

Don Tapscott Don Tapscott (born June 1, 1947) is a Canadian business executive, author, consultant and speaker, who specializes in business strategy, organizational transformation and the role of technology in business and society. He is the CEO of the Tapsc ...

Frederick Winslow Taylor Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 – March 21, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer. He was widely known for his methods to improve industrial efficiency. He was one of the first management consultants. In 1909, Taylor summed up ...

- scientific management,

(20th century) * Sridhar Tayur *

David Teece David John Teece (born September 2, 1948) is a New Zealand-born US-based organizational economist and the Professor in Global Business and director of the Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital at the Walter A. Haas School of ...

* Vern Terpstra * Jacques Thomassen (born 1945) - Dutch organizational theorist * C. Bertrand Thompson *

Alvin Toffler Alvin Eugene Toffler (October 4, 1928 – June 27, 2016) was an American writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on t ...

Thomas Thorburn Thomas William Thorburn (April 13, 1913 - March 13, 2003) was a Swedish economist, and Professor of Business Administration at the Stockholm School of Economics, known from his work on the "Supply and demand of water transport" (1960), and the "Co ...

(1913–2003) - Swedish Professor of Business Administration * Jean-Marie Toulouse * Phil Town * Henry R. Towne - scientific management (1890s) * John Tregoning - factory management (1890s) * Jack Trout * Josiah Tucker * Dominique Turpin

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* Yoichi Ueno * Werner Ulrich * Lyndall Urwick

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* Peter Vaill * Andrew H. Van de Ven * Jan Vanthienen *

Hal Varian Hal Ronald Varian (born March 18, 1947 in Wooster, Ohio) is Chief Economist at Google and holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information. Varian is an eco ...

* Antoaneta Vassileva * Henrik Virkkunen (1917–1963) - Finnish organizational theorist and professor of accounting *

Henk Volberda Henk W. Volberda (born 1964) is a Dutch organizational theorist, management consultant, and Professor of Strategic Management and Innovation at Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam. He is known for his contributions in the field of s ...

Victor Vroom Victor Harold Vroom (born August 9, 1932, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a business school professor at the Yale School of Management. He holds a PhD from University of Michigan and an MS and BS from McGill University. Work Vroom's primary res ...

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* André de Waal * Jean-Baptiste Waldner -

computer-integrated manufacturing Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) is the manufacturing approach of using computers to control the entire production process. This integration allows individual processes to exchange information with each part. Manufacturing can be faster ...

* Alexandra Waluszewski (born 1956) - Swedish organizational theorist * James Watt (1736–1819) -

Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, that occurred during the period from around 1760 to about 1820–1840. This transition included going f ...

, division of labour, standard operating procedures, cost control (1810s) * Max Weber - a founder of the modern study of

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...

and

public administration Public Administration (a form of governance) or Public Policy and Administration (an academic discipline) is the implementation of public policy, administration of government establishment (public governance), management of non-profit est ...

(1900) * Frank E. Webner (1865–1940s) - American consulting cost accountant * Karl E. Weick * Lawrence Welch (born 1945) - Australian organisational theorist *

Joseph Wharton Joseph Wharton (March 3, 1826 – January 11, 1909) was an American industrialist. He was involved in mining, manufacturing and education. He founded the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founded the Bethlehem Steel comp ...

(1826–1909) -

protective tariff Protective tariffs are tariffs that are enacted with the aim of protecting a domestic industry. They aim to make imported goods cost more than equivalent goods produced domestically, thereby causing sales of domestically produced goods to rise, ...

business cycle Business cycles are intervals of expansion followed by recession in economic activity. These changes have implications for the welfare of the broad population as well as for private institutions. Typically business cycles are measured by examin ...

Wharton School of Business The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ( ; also known as Wharton Business School, the Wharton School, Penn Wharton, and Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in ...

* Alasdair A. K. White * John Whitmore (c. 1870–1937) - American accountant, contributed to standard costing * Eli Whitney (1765–1825) - interchangeable parts,

cost accounting Cost accounting is defined as "a systematic set of procedures for recording and reporting measurements of the cost of manufacturing goods and performing services in the aggregate and in detail. It includes methods for recognizing, classifying, al ...

(1810s, 1820s) * Jennifer Wilby * Thomas Williams of Llanidan *

Oliver E. Williamson Oliver Eaton Williamson (September 27, 1932 – May 21, 2020) was an American economist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Elinor Ostro ...

(1960s) * Mark W. Willis *

Pieter Winsemius Pieter Winsemius (born 7 March 1942) is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businessman. Winsemius worked as a researcher at the Leiden University from February 1966 until October 1970 and as a ma ...

* Clinton Edgar Woods (1863–c. 1930) - factory organization (1900s)

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* Candace A. Yano

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* Udo Zander (born 1959) - Swedish organizational theorist

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