| This is an annotated list of important business theorists. It is in alphabetical order based on last name. To facilitate
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Contents: Top - 0-9 A B C D E F
G H I J K L M N O
P Q R S T U V W X
Y Z
Business theorists:
A
- D. Aaker - marketing strategy
(1980s)
- Derek Abell - strategic windows
(1980s)
- Russell L. Ackoff - operations research and systems theory
(1950s - 2004)
- Karol Adamiecki - management (1890s-1930s)
- Kenneth Andrews -
corporate values (1990s)
- Chris Argyris - learning systems (1970s, 1980s, 1990s)
B
- Charles Babbage - early scientific approach (1830s)
- Chester Barnard - executive leadership (1920s, 1930s)
- Jay Barney - resource based
strategies (1980s, 1990s)
- P. Blackett - operations
research (1930s, 1940s)
- Matthew Boulton - work methods (1800s)
- R. Buzzell - PIMS study on market
share (1970s, 1980s)
C
- Robert Camp - benchmarking
(1980s)
- Alexander Church -
functional management (1910s)
- Ronald Coase - transaction cost analysis, industrial and organizational
economics (1950s) [Nobel Prize in 1991]
- James Collins - vision,
mission, objectives and BHAG (1990s)
- Philip Crosby - quality
control (1980s) - "Quality is Free"
D
- Fred Davis - Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)(1990s)
- George Day - marketing
(1970s)
- Francisco DiMarco -
cost accounting (1390s)
- Harold Deming - quality
control (1970s)
- W. Edwards Deming - management, quality (1950s, 1960s)
- Keith Denton - continuous
improvement (1990s)
- H. Dodge - statistical quality control
procedures (1920s)
- Peter Drucker - management theory, MBO (1950s, 1960s, 1970s,
1980s)
- J. Duncan - the first college
textbook in management (1911)
E
F
- Henri Fayol - the inter-relationships of the various parts of management
(1910s)
- Armand Feigenbaum
Total Quality Control, "Quality is what the customer says it is."
- Ronald Fisher - statistical management (1920s)
- Mary Follett - group problem solving (1930s)
- T. Fry - statistical queuing theory
(1920s)
G
- B. Gale - PIMS study on market share
(1970s, 1980s)
- Henry Gantt - gantt charts (1900s)
- David Garvin - eight
dimensions of quality
- P. Ghemawat - experience curve
(1980s)
- Sumantra Ghoshal -
strategic leadership, Individualised Corporation
- James Gilbert - profit pools
(1990s)
- Frank Gilbreth - time and motion study (1900s), Cheaper by
the Dozen
- Eliyahu M. Goldratt - theory of constraints, critical
chain project management (1980s)
H
- Gary Hamel - core competencies, strategy as revolution (1990s)
- Michael Hammer -
reengineering (1990s)
- F. Harris - economic lot size model
(1910s)
- Frederick Hertzberg - motivation theory
- Frederick Hallsey -
wage and compensation plans (1890s)
I
- Kaoru Ishikawa (1915 - 1989) Total Quality, Ishikawa (fishbone)
diagram
J
- Joseph M. Juran -
(1904-) Internal customer, quality trilogy
K
- Robert Kaplan - balanced
scorecard (1990s)
- Philip Kotler - marketing
management, marketing warfare (1970s, 1980s, 1990s)
- John Kotter - leadership (1980s, 1990s)
L
- Peter Lawrence - the Peter
Principle (1970s)
- E. Learned - SWOT analysis (1970s,
1980s)
- W Leffingwell - office
management (1910s)
- Theodore Levitt -
marketing (1960s, 1970s)
- John Lintner - finance
(1970s)
M
- Kenneth D.
Mackenzie - Organizational Hologram, Organization Theories (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000)
- Mahajan - strategic models (1970s,
1980s)
- Constantinos
Markides - strategy dynamics (1980s)
- Henry Markowitz - portfolio diversification (1960s, 1970s)
- Elton Mayo - the sociology of business interactions (1920s)
- Daniel McCallum - organizational charts (1850s)
- Regis McKenna - real-time
management (1990s)
- Leo Melamed - futures exchanges (1980s - 1990s)
- Henry Metcalfe - the
science of administration (1880s)
- Merton Miller - corporate finance (1970s)
- Henry Mintzberg - organizational behaviour, strategic management
(1970s,1980s, 1990s, 2000s)
- Franco Modigliani - corporate finance (1970s)
- James Moncrieff -
strategy dynamics (1990s)
- Hugo Musterberg - the
psychology of work (1910s)
N
O
- Kenichi Ohmae - strategic
thought processes (1970s, 1980s)
- David Ogilvy - advertising (1960s, 1970s)
- Robert Owen - mutually beneficial personnel practices (1810s)
P
- L. Paccioli - double entry
bookkeeping (1340s)
- Jeffrey Pfeffer -
organizational development (1980s)
- Henry Poor - the principles of
organization (1850s)
- Michael Porter - SWOT analysis, strategic management, value chain,
generic strategies, 5 forces (1970s, 1980s, 1990s)
- Tom Peters - Excellence theories (1970s, 1980s)
- C. K. Prahalad - core
competency (1980s)
Q
R
- Frederick
Reichheld - the loyalty effect (1990s)
- Al Reis - positioning theory
(1980s)
S
- August-Wilhelm Scheer - ARIS
- Don Schultz - integrated
promotional strategy (1990s)
- Walter Scott - the psychology of personnel management (1920s)
- Patricia Seybold -
e-marketing, e-commerce (1990s)
- Oliver Sheldon - the
philosophy of business (1920s)
- J. Sheth - business strategy
(1990s)
- Walter A. Shewhart - Bell Labs 1920's-30's - control
charts
- Shigeo Shingo - (1909-) Zero
Quality, Poka-Yoke
- Herbert A. Simon - (1916-2001) "Satisficing," Nobel Prize 1978
- Adrian Slywotzky -
value migration (1990s)
- Adam Smith - microeconomic foundations of business, specialization of
labour (1770s)
- the Soranzo
brothers - journals and ledgers (1410s)
T
- Genichi Taguchi (1924-) How product specification can become cost
effective production
- Frederick Winslow Taylor - Scientific
Management (1900s)
- Ordwat Tead - the psychology of
industry (1910s)
- Henry Towne - the science of
management (1890s)
- Jack Trout - positioning theory (1980s)
U
V
W
- Richard Waterman -
Excellence theories (1970s, 1980s)
- James Watt - standard operating procedures, cost control (1810s)
- Joseph Wharton - first college course in business management
(1881)
- Eli Whitney - interchangeable parts, cost accounting (1810s,1820s)
- Oliver Williamson - transaction cost analysis (1970s)
- Yoram Wind - strategic behavioural
models (1970s, 1980s)
X
Y
Z
Harvard Business Review Survey
The Harvard Business Review asked 200 management gurus—the business thinkers most often mentioned in the media and
management literature—who their gurus were. Below are their responses.
Eight Mentions Peter Drucker: Management theory
Seven Mentions James March: Social scientist at Stanford
Six Mentions Herbert Simon (1916–2001): Nobel laureate
economist and organizational theorist
Five Mentions Paul Lawrence: Organizational researcher at
Harvard Business School
Four Mentions Richard Beckhard (1918–1999): Management theorist at MIT • Fernand Braudel (1902–1985): French historian • Henry Mintzberg: Management writer and critic at McGill • Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950): Economist at Harvard • Karl Weick: Social psychologist at the
University of Michigan
Three Mentions Russell
Ackoff: Operations and systems theorist at Wharton • Warren
Bennis: Leadership theorist and writer at the University of Southern California • Ronald Coase: Nobel laureate economist at the University of Chicago • W. Edwards Deming (1900–1993): Statistician and quality consultant • Erving Goffman (1922–1982): Sociologist • Gary Hamel: Consultant and management writer • Jay Lorsch: Organizational researcher at
Harvard Business School • Michael Porter: Professor of strategy
and competitiveness at Harvard Business School • C.K. Prahalad: Management theorist at the University of Michigan • Jack Welch: Former CEO, General Electric • Oliver Williamson: Organizational economist at the University of California, Berkeley
Two Mentions Chris Argyris: Organizational psychologist at
Harvard • Kenneth Arrow: Nobel laureate economist at Stanford
• Gregory Bateson (1904–1980): Anthropologist •
Daniel Bell: Sociologist at Harvard • John Seely Brown: Former chief
scientist at Xerox • Alfred Chandler: Historian at Harvard Business School • C. West Churchman: Systems theorist • James Collins: Management writer and consultant • Eric Erikson (1902–1994):
Psychological-growth theorist at Harvard • Michel Foucault
(1926–1984): French polymath • Anthony Giddens: British
sociologist • Andrew Grove: Former CEO, Intel • Everett Hughes (1897–1983):
Sociologist • Michael
Jensen: Organizational strategist and former professor at Harvard Business School • Stuart Kauffman: Biologist, chaos and complexity theorist • Kurt Lewin (1890–1947): Social psychologist • Karl
Marx (1818–1883): German economist and social theorist • Douglas McGregor (1906–1964): Management theorist at MIT • Robert K. Merton (1910–2003): Sociologist at Columbia • Geoffrey Moore: Management writer and consultant • Richard Pascale: Management writer
and consultant • Jeffrey
Pfeffer: Business professor at Stanford • Paul A.
Samuelson: Nobel laureate economist at MIT • Edgar Schein:
Psychologist and management scholar at MIT • Adrian Slywotsky: Management writer and consultant • Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915): The “father of scientific
management” • John
Van Maanen: Ethnographer at MIT • Sidney Winter: Economist at Wharton
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