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The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists
Edited by Morgen Witzel and Malcolm Warner
Extensive and detailed treatment of each theorist
Broad, international coverage of the development of management thinking in Europe, America, and Asia
Covers key areas, including scientific management, human relations, contingency theory, strategy, leadership, technology, and entrepreneurship
Concurrent with the increasing complexity of the field of management, the need to re-examine the foundations from which its theories have advanced has become ever more important and useful. The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists examines and evaluates the contributions that seminal figures, past and present, have made to the theory of management by providing in-depth, up-to-date, and detailed scholarly analysis of their ideas and influence.
Chapters by leading management and management history scholars explore the origins of each thinker or school of thought and their ideas, and discuss the significance and influence in a broader framework. The Handbook contextualises each theorist and their theories, analysing their actions, interactions, and re-actions to contemporary events and to each other. It is arranged in three parts: pioneers of management thinking from Frederick Taylor to Chester Barnard; post-war theorists, such as the Tavistock Institute and Edith Penrose; and the later phase of Business School theorists, including Alfred Chandler, Michael Porter, and Ikujiro Nonaka.
This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in how and why management ideas have emerged, and the ways in which they are currently developing and will evolve in the future.
1. Introduction, Morgen Witzel and Malcolm Warner
PART I PIONEERS
2. Frederick Winslow Taylor, Robert F. Conti
3. Mind, Method, and Motion: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, Bernard Mees
4. Henri Fayol, Jean-Louis Peaucelle and Cameron Guthrie
5. Mary Parker Follett, John Child
6. George Elton Mayo, Kyle Bruce
7. Lyndall Urwick, Andrew Thomson and John Wilson
8. Chester Barnard and the Systems Approach to Nurturing Organizations, Joseph T. Mahoney and Andrea Gabor
PART II POST-WAR THEORISTS
9. The Tavistock Group, Frances Abraham
10. Deeply Engaged, Intuitively Analytical, and Determinedly Applied: Tom Burns and Joan Woodward in Context but Not in Concert, Sandra Dawson
11. W. Edwards Deming, Milan Zeleny
12. The Life and Diverse Contributions of Dr J. M. Juran, Mohammed Zairi
13. Edith Penrose's Contribution to Economic and Management Scholarship, Christos Pitelis
14. Peter F. Drucker (Peter Georg Ferdinand Drucker), Peter Starbuck
15. Herbert Alexander Simon: Philosopher of the Organizational Life-World, J.C. Spender
PART III BUSINESS SCHOOL THEORISTS
16. Alfred Chandler's Managerial Revolution: Developing and Utilizing Productive Resources, William Lazonick
17. The Aston Studies: A Journey towards a Science of Administration?, Ray Loveridge
18. James March, Richard Cyert, and the Evolving Field of Organizations, Mie Augier
19. Geert Hofstede, Monir Tayeb
20. John Paul Kotter, Karl Moore and Alexandra Klein
21. Henry Mintzberg, Morgen Witzel
22. The Competitive Advantage of Michael Porter, John Mathews
23. Ikujiro Nonaka, Robert Pitkethly
24. Sumantra Ghoshal, Susan Segal-Horn
25. C. K. Prahalad, Peter Williamson and Keeley Wilson
Morgen Witzel, Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter Business School, Fellow,,Malcolm Warner, Professor and Fellow Emeritus, Wolfson College, and Judge Business School, University Of Cambridge
Morgen Witzel is a well-known writer and lecturer on management, and one of the world's leading management historians. He is the author of eighteen books on management history, which have been translated into nine languages, and an extensive number of articles, essays, and reviews for various publications. He is currently a Fellow of the Centre for Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter Business School.
Malcolm Warner is a retired academic based in Cambridge and London. He is the author of over fifty books on management, many of which have been translated, and many articles, essays, and reviews on the subject. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the International Encyclopedia of Business and Management: vols.1-8 (London: Thomson Learning, 2nd edition, 2002). He is also Co-Editor of the Asia Pacific Business Review. He has, in addition, been a frequent Visiting Academic at many campuses and business schools across the world. He is currently Professor and Fellow Emeritus, Wolfson College, Cambridge and the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
Frances Abraham, Principal Consultant and Researcher, the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.
Mie Augier, Associate Professor, the Naval Postgraduate School and Research Associate, Stanford University.
Kyle Bruce, Associate Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University.
John Child, Emeritus Professor of Commerce, the University of Birmingham.
Robert F Conti, Emeritus Professor, Bryant University, USA.
Dame Sandra Dawson, Professor of Management, the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
Andrea Gabor, Bloomberg Chair of Business Journalism, Baruch College, the City University of New York.
Cameron Guthrie, Associate Professor in Management Science, the Université de Toulouse - Toulouse Business School.
Alexandra Klein, Legal Adviser, Montréal.
William Lazonick, Professor and Director, UMass Lowell Center for Industrial Competitiveness, and President of the Academic-Industry Research Network.
Ray Loveridge, Associate Fellow, the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Professor Emeritus, Aston University, and Visiting Professor, Doshisha Business School, Kyoto, Japan and the Beijing Institute of Technology.
John Mathews, Eni Chair of Competitive Dynamics and Global Strategy, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, and Chair of Strategy, MGSM, Macquarie University, Sydney.
Joseph P. Mahoney, Investors in Business Education Professor of Strategy, and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Business Administration, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Bernard Mees, Senior Lecturer, the School of Management and the Centre for Sustainable Organizations and Work, RMIT University.
Karl Moore, Professor, McGill University, USA, and Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
Jean-Louis Peaucelle, Professor in Management Science, the University of Reunion Island.
Christos Pitelis, Director of the Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM) and Reader in International Business and Competitiveness, the Judge Business School, and Fellow in Economics, Queens' College, University of Cambridge.
Susan Segal-Horn, Professor Emeritus of International Strategy, the Open University Business School, UK.
J.-C. Spender, Visiting Professor, ESADE, Lund University, and University Campus, Suffolk.
Peter Starbuck , independent scholar
Monir Tayeb, Honorary Reader, Heriot-Watt University
Andrew Thomson, Emeritus Professor, the Open University.
Malcolm Warner, Professor and Fellow Emeritus, Wolfson College, and Judge Business School, University Of Cambridge
Peter Williamson, Professor of International Management, Judge Business School and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge.
John Wilson, Professor of Strategy, the University of Liverpool Management School.
Keeley Wilson, Senior Research Fellow, INSEAD.
Morgen Witzel, Fellow of the Centre for Leadership Studies, the University of Exeter Business School.
Mohamed Zairi, JURAN Chair in TQM and Executive Chairman, European Centre for Best Practice Management
Milan Zeleny, Professor of Management Systems, Fordham University, New York City.
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