Howard E. Aldrich

Howard E. Aldrich (born 1943) is an American sociologist who is Kenan Professor of Sociology and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a Faculty Research Associate at the Department of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business.[3] He is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge

Leon P. Alford

Leon Pratt Alford (Jan. 3, 1877 – Feb. 2, 1942) was an American mechanical engineer, organizational theorist, and administrator for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.[1][2] known for his seminal work in the field of industrial management.[3] Biography Born in Simsbury, Connecticut, Alford graduated from the High School of Plainville, Connecticut, and in 1896 from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.[4] After ten years in the

Tim Ambler

Tim Ambler (born 1937) is a British organizational theorist, author and academic on the field of Marketing effectiveness.[1] Ambler featured on Marketing’s list of the 100 most powerful figures in the industry.[2] He is cited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing as one of the top 50 marketing experts in the world [3] Life and career Ambler was educated at

Igor Ansoff

Harry Igor Ansoff (Russian: Игорь Ансов, 12 December 1918– 14 July 2002) was a Russian American applied mathematician and business manager.[1] He is known as one of the fathers of strategic management. Biography Early life Igor Ansoff was born in Vladivostok, Russia, on December 12, 1918.[2] His father was an American-born Russian from Evansville, Indiana and his mother was a Russian from Moscow. At the time of

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas OP (/əˈkwaɪnəs/; Italian: Tommaso d’Aquino, lit. ‘Thomas of Aquino’; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian[9] Dominican friar and priest, an influential philosopher and theologian, and a jurist in the tradition of scholasticism from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily, Italy; he is known within the tradition as the Doctor Angelicus, and the Doctor Communis.[a] In 1999, John Paul II added a new title to these traditional ones: Doctor Humanitatis.[10] Thomas was a

Ingeman Arbnor

Ingeman Arbnor (born January 25, 1949) is a Swedish economist, Professor at the Lund University, Lund, known for his international bestseller Methodology for Creating Business Knowledge written with Björn Bjerke. Biography Ingeman Arbnor was born in Sweden in 1949, and studied Economics at the Lund University. A few years, later Arbnor was appointed to his first professorial position at the Lund University. Björn Bjerke supervised the final phase

Chris Argyris

Chris Argyris (July 16, 1923 – November 16, 2013[1]) was an American business theorist and professor at Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School. Argyris, like Richard Beckhard, Edgar Schein and Warren Bennis,[citation needed] is known as a co-founder of organization development, and known for seminal work on learning organizations. Biography Argyris was born a twin—along with Thomas S. Argyris (1923–2001)[2]—into a family of Greek immigrants to the

Horace Lucian Arnold

Horace Lucian Arnold (June 25, 1837 – January 25, 1915[1]) was an American engineer, inventor, engineering journalist and early American writer on management, who wrote about shop management, cost accounting, and other specific management techniques.[2] He also wrote under the names Hugh Dolnar, John Randol,[3] and Henry Roland. With Henry R. Towne, Henry Metcalfe, Emile Garcke, John Tregoning and Slater Lewis he is known as early systematizer of management of the

Neal Ashkanasy

Neal M. Ashkanasy OAM (born 5 June 1945) is an Australian academic best known for his work on emotions in the workplace.[1] He was honored for his “service to tertiary education, to psychology and to the community.”[2] He began his career as a civil engineer but is now a Professor of Management at the University of Queensland Business School.[3] Early life and education

Stephen R. Barley

Stephen R. Barley (born February 16, 1953) is an American organizational theorist and Christian A. Felipe Professor of Technology Management at the College of Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara. Previously he was The Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Barley’s research focuses on the role of technology

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 Executive, sets out a theory of organization and of the functions of executives in organizations. The book has been widely assigned in university courses in management theory and organizational

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 friends with British royalty and Nazis alike, and was a management consultant, big game hunter and explorer. In 1934, he was the fifth wealthiest man in the United States. [1] Early years Charles Bedaux was born in

Warren Bennis

Warren Gamaliel Bennis (March 8, 1925 – July 31, 2014) was an American scholar, organizational consultant and author, widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of Leadership studies.[1][2] Bennis was University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and Founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California.[3] “His work at MIT in the 1960s

Per Olof Berg

Per Olof Berg (born July 17, 1946) is a Swedish organizational theorist and Professor in business administration, known for his work on “Corporate culture and organizational symbolism.”[1][2] Biography Born in Strängnäs, Sweden, Berg took an exam as engineer in Industrial Electronics at Västerås Technical Gymnasium. Sequentially he did his military service in Uppsala, and afterwards graduated with an MSc in Business Administration from Lund University in 1970.

Manfred Berliner

Manfred Berliner (born 1853 in Hannover; died 1931) was a German business teacher. Life He was the fifth child of textile merchant Samuel Berliner and brother of Emil Berliner (inventor of the gramophone), Joseph Berliner, and Jacob Berliner. After a merchant apprenticeship, military service in the Franco-Prussian war, and work in bookkeeping, he initially managed membership of

Björn Bjerke

Björn Bjerke (1941–2018) was a Swedish economist, professor in entrepreneurship and small firms at Stockholm University, known for the 1997 book “Methodology for Creating Business Knowledge” written with Ingeman Arbnor. Bjerke received his PhD from the Lund University, where he kept working for some years. Later he held professorships at the Waikato University in New Zealand, the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi

Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett OM CH FRS[5] (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948.[6] In 1925 he became the first person to prove that radioactivity could cause the nuclear transmutation of one chemical element to another.[7] He also made a major contribution in World

Ken Blanchard

Kenneth Hartley Blanchard (born May 6, 1939) is an American author, business consultant and motivational speaker. His writing career includes 60+ published books, most of which are co-authored books. His most successful book, The One Minute Manager, has sold over 15 million copies and been translated into many languages.[1] Blanchard is also the Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies,[2] an

Charles Bosanquet

Charles Bosanquet (23 July 1769 – 20 June 1850) was an English colonial official and writer. Life He was born at Forest House, Essex, the second son of Samuel Bosanquet and Eleanor Hunter. He was educated at Newcome’s School and then in Switzerland.[1] Bosanquet went into trade as a West Indies merchant, initially with John Proctor Anderdon. They were joined by William

Matthew Boulton

Matthew Boulton FRS (BOHL-tən; 3 September 1728 – 17 August 1809) was an English businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and silversmith. He was a business partner of the Scottish engineer James Watt. In the final quarter of the 18th century, the partnership installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engines, which were a great advance on the state of the