Walter A. Shewhart

Walter Andrew Shewhart (pronounced like “shoe-heart”; March 18, 1891 – March 11, 1967) was an American physicist, engineer and statistician, sometimes known as the father of statistical quality control and also related to the Shewhart cycle. W. Edwards Deming said of him: As a statistician, he was, like so many of the rest of us, self-taught, on a good background

Shigeo Shingo

Shigeo Shingo (新郷 重夫, Shingō Shigeo, 1909–1990) was a Japanese industrial engineer who was considered as the world’s leading expert on manufacturing practices and the Toyota Production System. Life and work After having worked as a technician specializing in fusions at the Taiwanese railways in Taipei, at the end of the World War II, in 1945, he started to work at the

Ibrahim Sirkeci

İbrahim Sirkeci (born 1972, Izmir, Turkey) is a British Turkish social scientist, currently Head of Enterprise Subject Group at Salford Business School, University of Salford, Manchester,[1] UK. He served as a Professor at various British universities including his 16 years long service at the European Business School London, Regent’s University London,[2] and was the Director of Regent’s Centre for Transnational Studies.[3] Biography Sirkeci received his

Adrian Slywotzky

Adrian J. Slywotzky (born 1951 in New York City) is an American consultant of Ukrainian origin and the author of several books on economic theory and management. Biography Slywotzky was born in the family of Ukrainian immigrants from the Ivano-Frankivs’k region of Ukraine. After getting his undergraduate degree at Harvard, Slywotzky also received a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business

Linda Smircich

Linda Smircich (born 1948) is a Professor of Management in the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst where she teaches Organizational Alternative Paradigms.[1] She is part of the critical management studies approach field and a critical researcher in organizational culture and gender.[2] Biography Linda Smircich has a B.S. from State University of New York at Oswego, M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Syracuse University.[1] She was previously

Ivan Snehota

Ivan Snehota (1946-2022)[1] was an Italian organizational theorist, consultant, and Professor of Marketing at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of Lugano, known for his work in the field of business networks with Håkan Håkansson and others.[2][3] Biography Snehota obtained his PhD in Business Administration at the University of Uppsala in 1990 with the thesis, entitled “Notes on a Theory of

Henk G. Sol

Henk Gerard Sol (born 11 August 1951 in Borger, Netherlands) is a Dutch organizational theorist and Emeritus Professor[1] of Business Engineering and ICT at Groningen University. His research focuses on the development of services enabled by ICT, management information systems, decision enhancement and telematics.[2] Biography Sol was born in 1951 near Groningen. In 1974 he received an M.A. in Econometrics, Operations Research and Information Systems from the University of Groningen. In

Rolf Solli

Rolf Solli (born 1953) is a Swedish organizational theorist and Professor of Management at the University of Borås. During 2003-2012 he was Director and Professor of Management Studies at GRI, Gothenburg Research Institute, School of Business, Economics and Law at Göteborg University, Sweden.[1] His research focuses on processes of management, leadership and accounting mainly in the context of

Thomas J. Stanley

Thomas J. Stanley (1944 – February 28, 2015)[1] was an American writer and business theorist. He was the author and co-author of several award-winning books on America’s wealthy, including the New York Times’ best sellers The Millionaire Next Door and The Millionaire Mind. He served as chief advisor to Data Points, a company founded based on his research and data.[2] He

Andy Stefanovich

Andy Stefanovich (born 1966) is an American speaker, bestselling author, and business consultant.[1][2] A native of Detroit, Michigan, Stefanovich is currently the founding partner of a consulting firm called Life. Previously, he was a partner with Richmond, Virginia-based venture capital firm New Richmond Ventures LLC.[3][4] Before that, Stefanovich was “chief curator and provocateur” at Prophet, a global business and creative consulting firm headquartered

Victor Hermann Stempf

Victor Hermann Stempf (April 28, 1893 – April 18, 1946) was an American accountant and administrator, known as the 7th inductee into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 1952.[1][2] Life and work Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Stempf obtained his BA in economics in 1915 at from St. Louis University, and obtained his license as Certified Public Accountant in

Joel Stern

Joel M. Stern was chairman and chief executive officer of Stern Value Management, formerly Stern Stewart & Co, and the creator and developer of economic value added. He was a recognised authority on financial economics, corporate performance measurement, corporate valuation and incentive compensation and was a pioneer and leading advocate of the concept of shareholder value.[1] He was also active in academia,

Rosemary Stewart

Rosemary Stewart (20 December 1924 – 15 June 2015)[1] was a British researcher and writer on business management and healthcare management. Stewart was born in London but the family later moved to Pulborough, West Sussex. Most of her schooling was in Saskatoon, Canada, where her mother had relatives. She graduated in Economics from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver,

Antonio Strati

Antonio Strati (born 1949) is an Italian organizational theorist, artist[1] and Professor at the University of Trento, particularly known for his work on “Organization and aesthetics”.[2][3] Biography Born in Reggio Calabria, Italy, Strati attended secondary education in Florence. He received his BA in Sociology in 1974 from the University of Trento. In 1982 he received his PhD in Organization Studies in

Robert I. Sutton

Robert I. Sutton (born 1954 in Chicago) is a professor of management science at the Stanford University School of Engineering and a researcher in the field of evidence-based management. He is a New York Times best-selling author.[1] Sutton received a Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan in 1984. He has been on the Stanford University faculty since 1983. He has also taught at the Haas School of

A. Swanson

Gale Alden (G.A.) Swanson (Jan 12, 1939 – July 3, 2009) was an American organizational theorist, and Professor of Accounting at Tennessee Technological University, known for his accounting theories based on James Grier Miller’s general living systems theory.[1] Early life Gale Alden Swanson was born in Lemmon, South Dakota, on January 12, 1939, to Freda (née Wolff) and George H.A. Swanson.[1] He received

Richard A. Swanson

Richard A. Swanson (born 1942) is an American organizational theorist and Distinguished Research Professor of Human Resource Development and the Sam Lindsey Chair at the University of Texas at Tyler (UTT), known for his synthesis work on the financial research related to human resource development. Biography Swanson was born in 1942. He received a B.A. at The College of New Jersey in

William R. Synnott

William R. (Bill) Synnott (December 29, 1929 – November 13, 2010) was an American organizational theorist, Vice President of Bank of Boston, author, consultant and lecturer, known for his work in the field of computer technology in business in the 1980s.[1][2] Biography Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, to William and Marie (Labrie) Synnott in 1929, Synnott

Genichi Taguchi

Genichi Taguchi (田口 玄一, Taguchi Gen’ichi, January 1, 1924 – June 2, 2012) was an engineer and statistician.[1] From the 1950s on, Taguchi developed a methodology for applying statistics to improve the quality of manufactured goods. Taguchi methods have been controversial among some conventional Western statisticians,[2][3] but others have accepted many of the concepts introduced by him as valid extensions to the body of knowledge. Biography

Don Tapscott

Don Tapscott CM (born June 1, 1947) is a Canadian business executive, author, consultant and speaker, who specializes in business strategy, organizational transformation and the role of technology in business and society. He is the CEO of the Tapscott Group and the co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute.[2] Career Tapscott has authored or co-authored sixteen books on the application