Joseph August (Joe) Litterer (October 16, 1926 – December 5, 1995) was an American

organizational theorist An organization or organisation ( Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is an entity—such as a company, or corporation or an institution (formal organization), or an association—comprising one or more people and having a par ...

and Professor at the

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, known for his work on the state of the art and history of systemic management. Richard L. Daft. ''Organization theory and design.'' Cengage learning, 2006.

Biography

Born in Philadelphia to Charles Litterer and Gladys Bader, Litterer obtained his BSc in

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

and his MBA both from

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. Sequentially he obtained his PhD in business administration from the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United ...

."Obituary" in ''Daily Press,'' 06/12/1995.
online
Litterer started his academic career at the

, and later moved to the

. He was visiting professor at many universities national and abroad. He was elected Fellow of the

Academy of Management An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the g ...

, and its 25th president in the year 1969–1970. Litterer was married to the American organizational theorist

Mariann Jelinek Mariann Jelinek is an American organizational theorist, and Emeritus Professor of Strategy at the College of William & Mary, considered an icon for her contributions in the field of management of technology and innovation. Biography Born in 194 ...

Selected publications

* Joseph A. Litterer (1967). ''The Analysis of Organizations.'' * Litterer, Joseph A. ''Organizations: structure and behaviour.'' 1969. * Jelinek, Mariann, Joseph August Litterer, and Raymond E. Miles. ''Organizations by design: Theory and practice.'' Business Publications, 1981. Articles, a selection: * Litterer, Joseph A. "Systematic management: The search for order and integration." ''Business History Review'' 35.04 (1961): 461–476. * Litterer, Joseph A. "Systematic management: design for organizational recoupling in American manufacturing firms." ''Business History Review'' 37.04 (1963): 369–391. * Litterer, Joseph A. "Conflict in organization: A re-examination." ''Academy of Management Journal'' 9.3 (1966): 178–186. * Jelinek, Mariann, and Joseph A. Litterer. "Toward a cognitive theory of organizations." ''Advances in managerial cognition and organizational information processing'' 5 (1994): 3-41. * Jelinek, Mariann, and Joseph A. Litterer. "Toward entrepreneurial organizations: Meeting ambiguity with engagement." ''Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice'' 19 (1995): 137–168.

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Joseph A. (Joe) Litterer, President (1970)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Litterer, Joseph August 1926 births 1995 deaths American business theorists 20th-century American economists