Richard L. Daft (born 1941) is an American organizational theorist and the
Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Professor of Management at the
Owen Graduate School of Management,
Vanderbilt University
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.
Biography
Daft holds a
B.S. from the
University of Nebraska
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, an
M.B.A. from the
University of Chicago
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, and a
Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
He has made fundamental contributions to the study of
organization behavior and
organization design, and authored several books in these areas. He co-developed
media richness theory, with Robert H. Lengel, and is one of the most widely cited scholars in the field of management.
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He developed and managed the Center for Change Leadership at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
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, where he also served as Associate Dean for Academic Programs. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management
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Bibliography
*''Leadership'' (2011)
*''Leadership and Management'' (2010)
*''The Executive and the Elephant'' (2010)
*''Management: The New Workplace'' (2009)
*''Principles of Management'' (2009)
*''Understanding the Theory and Design of Organizations'' (2007)
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*''Organizational Behaviors'' (2001)
*''Talking about Organization'' (2000)
*''Fusion Leadership'' (1998)
*Where Are the Theories for the "New" Organizational Forms? An Editorial Essay (1993) with Arie Lewin
*''Management'' (1988), The Dryden Press
References
External links
Richard L. Daft's web site
at Vanderbilt University
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1941 births
Living people
University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni
American sociologists
Vanderbilt University faculty
University of Chicago Booth School of Business alumni