This is an annotated list of important business writers. It is in alphabetical order based on last name. For quick navigation, click on one of the letters:
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A
David Aaker
Wil van der Aalst
James Abegglen
Bodo Abel
Abraham
Russell L. Ackoff
John Adair
Karol Adamiecki
Ichak Adizes
Niclas Adler
Charles Constance César Joseph Matthieu d’Agoult
Yoji Akao
Ali Akdemir
Mark Albion
Howard E. Aldrich
Leon P. Alford
Tim Ambler
Igor Ansoff
Thomas Aquinas
Ingeman Arbnor
Chris Argyris
Horace Lucian Arnold
Neal Ashkanasy
B
Stephen R. Barley
Chester Barnard
Charles Bedaux
Warren Bennis
Per Olof Berg
Manfred Berliner
Björn Bjerke
Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
Ken Blanchard
Charles Bosanquet
Matthew Boulton
Marvin Bower
Richard Boyatzis
Leland Lawrence Briggs
John Seely Brown
Wilfred Brown, Baron Brown
Nils Brunsson
Buddha
Lawton Burns
James MacGregor Burns
C
Noel Capon
Charles U. Carpenter
Annibale Carracci
Jean-Luc Cerdin
James A. Champy
Alfred D. Chandler
Jesus Christ
Clayton M. Christensen
Alexander Hamilton Church
West Churchman
Stewart Clegg
James C. Collins
Morris Llewellyn Cooke
Cary Cooper
Stephen Covey
Philip B. Crosby
Richard Cyert
Barbara Czarniawska
D
Robert Dahlstrom
David Dale
Thomas H. Davenport
George S. Day
Jeff DeGraff
Morris H. DeGroot
Edwards Deming
Daniel R. Denison
Eric Dent
Hugo Diemer
Jan Dietz
Patrick Dixon
Henk van Dongen
Sytse Douma
Wiebe Draijer
Peter Drucker
Anna Dubois
Jean Dubuffet
Peter Dunn
E
Andrew S.C. Ehrenberg
Michael Eisner
Chester Elton
Tunç Erem
Richard F. Ericson
Hans-Erik Eriksson
Agner Krarup Erlang
Hamid Etemad
F
Henri Fayol
Armand V. Feigenbaum
Tim Ferriss
Harry Anson Finney
Ronald Fisher
Mary Follett
Nicolai J. Foss
Edward Freeman
Mike L. Fry
Adrian Furnham
G
John Kenneth Galbraith
Henry Gantt
Burleigh B. Gardner
Michael Gerber
Jamshid Gharajedaghi
Sumantra Ghoshal
John P. van Gigch
Frank Bunker Gilbreth
Frank Gilbreth
Seth Godin
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Marshall Goldsmith
Daniel Goleman
Vytautas Andrius Graiciunas
Lynda Gratton
Jackson Grayson
Danny Greefhorst
Miriam Green
James Bray Griffith
William H. Gruber
Erich Gutenberg
H
Stephan H. Haeckel
Stephen G. Haines
Noel Frederick Hall
Brian Halligan
Gary Hamel
Michael Hammer
Charles Handy
Paul Harmon
Charter Harrison
Sven A. Haugland
David L. Hawk
Igor Hawryszkiewycz
Robert Heller
Frederick Herzberg
Steen Hildebrandt
Charles DeLano Hine
Geert Hofstede
Kenneth Hopper
Yasheng Huang
Albert S Humphrey
Shelby D. Hunt
Walter Hunziker
I
Masaaki Imai
Anders Indset
Kaoru Ishikawa
J
Mike Jackson
Lars Jaeger
John Jantsch
Dave Jenks
Anita Jose
Joseph M. Juran
K
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Robert S. Kaplan
Dexter Keezer
Kevin Lane Keller
Roy B. Kester
Tarun Khanna
Walter Kickert
John Warren Kindt
Charles Edward Knoeppel
Richard Koch
Lars Kolind
Monika Kostera
Philip Kotler
John Kotter
Joe Kutchera
Vladimir Kvint
L
John Christian Langli
Jean-Claude Larréché
Kyoung Jun Lee
William Henry Leffingwell
Paul Leonardi
Harry Levinson
Theodore Levitt
Michael Lewis
Peter Lindgren
John Lintner
Thomas Williams of Llanidan
Ted London
Juan Antonio Pérez López
Jay Lorsch
Michael Lounsbury
Randi Lunnan
Reijo Luostarinen
James Alexander Lyons
M
John Van Maanen
Kenneth D. Mackenzie
Teemu Malmi
Vincent Mangematin
James G. March
Constantinos Markides
Harry Markowitz
Perry Marshall
Elton Mayo
John H. McArthur
Daniel McCallum
Douglas McGregor
Dalton McGuinty.
Geoff Meeks
Lucas Meijs
Leo Melamed
Gary Metcalf
Henry C. Metcalf
Henry Metcalfe
Gerald Midgley
Danny Miller
Merton Miller
Henry Mintzberg
Franco Modigliani
Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu
Geoffrey Moore
Richard Moran
Gareth Morgan
Gerry Morgan
Silvina Moschini
Moses
Prophet Muhammad
Hugo Münsterberg
Keith Murnighan
Christa Muth
N
Guru Nanak
Peter Naudé
Nicholas Negroponte
Nobuo Noda
Kjell A. Nordström
Arne Nygaard
O
George S. Odiorne
David Ogilvy
Kenichi Ohmae
Taiichi Ohno
Sharon Oster
William Ouchi
Robert Owen
P
Luca Pacioli
Krishna Palepu
Scott Patterson
Keith Pavitt
Edith Penrose
Javier Perez-Capdevila
Oscar E. Perrigo
Laurence J. Peter
Thomas J. Peters
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Robert Allen Phillips
Rebecca Piekkari
Henry Varnum Poor
Michael Porter
K. Prahalad
Derek S. Pugh
Q
R
Donald R. de Raadt
Navi Radjou
Ravichandaran
Jeffrey Rayport
Charles Redding
Robert Reich
Fred Reichheld
Reg Revans
Jeremy Rifkin
Fritz Roethlisberger
Georges Romme
Mike Rother
S
Martti Saario
Kenan Sahin
Mohammad Ali Sarlak
Jason Saul
August-Wilhelm Scheer
Edgar Schein
Eugen Schmalenbach
Hein Schreuder
David Meerman Scott
Walter Dill Scott
Esbjörn Segelod
Peter Senge
Dorian Shainin
Stanley J. Shapiro
Seena Sharp
Oliver Sheldon
Walter A. Shewhart
Shigeo Shingo
Ibrahim Sirkeci
Adrian Slywotzky
Linda Smircich
Ivan Snehota
Henk G. Sol
Rolf Solli
Thomas J. Stanley
Andy Stefanovich
Victor Hermann Stempf
Joel Stern
Rosemary Stewart
Antonio Strati
Robert I. Sutton
A. Swanson
Richard A. Swanson
William R. Synnott
T
Genichi Taguchi
Don Tapscott
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Sridhar Tayur
David Teece
Vern Terpstra
Jacques Thomassen
Bertrand Thompson
Thomas Thorburn
Alvin Toffler
Jean-Marie Toulouse
Phil Town
Henry R. Towne
John Tregoning
Jack Trout
Josiah Tucker
Bruce Tuckman
Dominique Turpin
U
Yoichi Ueno
Werner Ulrich
Lyndall Urwick
V
Peter Vaill
Andrew H. Van de Ven
Jan Vanthienen
Hal Varian
Antoaneta Vassileva
Henrik Virkkunen
Henk Volberda
Voltaire
Victor Vroom
W
André de Waal
Jean-Baptiste Waldner
Alexandra Waluszewski
James Watt
Frank E. Webner
Karl E. Weick
Lawrence Welch
Joseph Wharton
Alasdair A. K. White
John Whitmore
Eli Whitney
Jennifer Wilby
Oliver E. Williamson
Mark W. Willis
Pieter Winsemius
Clinton Edgar Woods
X
Y
Candace A. Yano
Z
Udo Zander
Lao Zi
Zoroaster
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