Reijo Luostarinen

Reijo Kalevi Luostarinen (26 December 1939 – 24 November 2017) was a Finnish organisational theorist, Professor of International Business at the Aalto University School of Business, and chairman of Biohit.[1] He is known for his work on internationalization[2] and International business operations.[3] Life and work Born in Kajaani, Luostarinen obtained his degrees at the Helsinki School of Economics, the Aalto University School of

James Alexander Lyons

James Alexander Lyons (1861 – 1920) was an American accountancy author, and publisher, known for publishing a series of books on bookkeeping and accountancy in the early 20th century.[1][2] The first work Lyons published was the 1896 textbook entitled “A treatise on business practice,” which was designed as textbook for all business schools and as reference

John Van Maanen

John Eastin Van Maanen (born 1943) is an American organizational theorist, Professor of Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management,[1] and best known for his contributions to qualitative studies in management and to organizational ethnography. His studies included longitudinal researches of policemen, fishermen, Disneyland operators, and London detectives. His publications include also methodological studies on writing organizational ethnographies and on power relations in workplace.[2] His Tales of the Field on Writing Ethnography (University of

Kenneth D. Mackenzie

Kenneth D. Mackenzie (born 1937) is an American organizational theorist, former professor at the University of Kansas and management consultant. He is known for his early work on the “Theory of Group Structures”[1] and his later work on organizational design[2] Biography Mackenzie received his BA in mathematics with a minor in Physics in 1960 from the University of California, Berkeley,

Teemu Malmi

Teemu Malmi (born October 17, 1965) is a Finnish organizational theorist, a professor at the Aalto University, Department of Accounting and Finance, and Chairman of the Board of the Aalto University Executive Education. He is known for his research on the use of the balanced scorecard in Finnish companies[1] and his work on management control systems.[2] Life and work Born in

Vincent Mangematin

Vincent Mangematin (born 1965) is a French researcher and professor in management, specialized in Strategy, Strategic management of Innovation and Technology Management. He is currently professor and scientific director at Grenoble Ecole de Management. Biography Mangematin received his PhD in Administrative Sciences from Université Paris IX Dauphine in 1993 and is an ENS Cachan alumni. His thesis, entitled « Recherche coopérative et stratégie de normalisation » focuses on technological competition processes. He has worked for INRA Grenoble as member of the

James G. March

James Gardner March (January 15, 1928 – September 27, 2018) was an American political scientist, sociologist, and economist. A professor at Stanford University in the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Education, he is best known for his research on organizations,[1] his (jointly with Richard Cyert) seminal work on A Behavioral Theory of the Firm,[2] and the organizational decision making model known as the Garbage Can Model.[3][4]

Constantinos Markides

Constantinos C. Markides (born 1960) is a Cypriot management educator and, since 1990, the Robert P. Bauman Professor of Strategic Leadership at London Business School[1] (London, UK). He is known for his work on strategic disruption and business models which is particularly illustrated in his book Game Changing Strategies published in 2008.[2] He was listed among the Forbes.com

Harry Markowitz

Harry Max Markowitz (August 24, 1927 – June 22, 2023) was an American economist who received the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Markowitz was a professor of finance at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is best known for his pioneering work in modern portfolio

Perry Marshall

Perry Sink Marshall is an American business consultant, and author of books on marketing, business strategy, communications technology, and evolution.[1][2] Life Marshall is the son of a pastor.[3] He graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.[4][better source needed] Work and publications Marshall was a national sales manager at Synergetic Micro Systems; he left in 2001 after the

Elton Mayo

George Elton Mayo (26 December 1880 – 7 September 1949) was an Australian born psychologist,[1][2][3] industrial researcher, and organizational theorist.[4][5] Mayo was formally trained at the University of Adelaide, acquiring a Bachelor of Arts Degree graduating with First Class Honours, majoring in philosophy and psychology,[4] and was later awarded an honorary Master of Arts Degree from the University of Queensland (UQ). While in Queensland, Mayo

John H. McArthur

John Hector McArthur (March 31, 1934 – August 20, 2019) was a Canadian-American organizational theorist. He served as Professor of Business Administration and the 7th Dean of the Harvard Business School (1980–1995).[1] Personal life McArthur was born on March 31, 1934[2] in Vancouver, McArthur grew up in nearby Burnaby, British Columbia. His father was a government grain inspector and his

Daniel McCallum

Daniel Craig McCallum (January 21, 1815 – December 27, 1878) was a Scottish-born American railroad engineer, general manager of the New York and Erie Railroad and Union Brevet Major General of the United States Military Railroads during the American Civil War, known as one of the early pioneers of management. He set down a group of general principles of management,[1] and is credited for having

Douglas McGregor

Douglas Murray McGregor (September 6, 1906 – October 1, 1964) was an American management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954.[1] He also taught at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise had a profound influence on education practices. McGregor was a student of Abraham Maslow. He has contributed

Dalton McGuinty.

Dalton James Patrick McGuinty (August 13, 1926 – March 16, 1990) was a Canadian politician from Ontario. A member of the Ontario Liberal Party, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1990. He represented the riding of Ottawa South. He had 10 children, including Dalton McGuinty who was Premier of Ontario from 2003 to 2013, and David McGuinty who has been

Geoff Meeks

Geoffrey (Geoff) Meeks (born 1949) is a British accounting scholar and Professor of Financial Accounting at the University of Cambridge, known for his work “Accounting standards and the economics of standards.”[1] Biography Meeks obtained his BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge in 1971[2] and a Ph.D. in Accounting and Economics from the University of Edinburgh in 1975[3]

Lucas Meijs

Lucas C.P.M. Meijs (born 27 December 1963) a Dutch organizational theorist and Professor Volunteering, Civil Society and Businesses at the department Business-Society Management of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Professor Strategic Philanthropy at the Erasmus Centre for Strategic Philanthropy.[1] Biography Born in Haarlem, Meijs studied Business Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam and received a Ph.D. in Business Administration in 1997. The

Leo Melamed

Leo Melamed (born March 20, 1932) is an American attorney, finance executive, and a pioneer of financial futures. He is the chairman emeritus of CME Group (formerly the Chicago Mercantile Exchange).[1] Personal life Melamed was born Leibel Melamdovich in 1932 in Bialystok, Poland into a Jewish family,[2] to two school teachers, Fayga (Barakin) Melamdovich and Isaac Melamdovich (a mathematics teacher).[3] In 1939, following Germany’s

Gary Metcalf

Gary S. Metcalf (born 1957) is an American systems scientist, organizational theorist, management consultant, and university professor. He has served as president of the International Federation for Systems Research 2010-2014. Biography Raised in Oviedo, Florida Metcalf received a B.S. in Education in 1981 from the North Texas State University, an M.S.S.W. in Social Work in 1985 from the University of Texas at Arlington, and a Ph.D. in Human Science in

Henry C. Metcalf

Henry Clayton Metcalf (February 22, 1867 – August 1942[1]) was an early American organizational theorist, Professor of Political Science at Tufts College in Massachusetts and Chairman of Tufts College, known from his publications on management with Ordway Tead[2][3] and Lyndall Urwick. Biography Born in Warsaw, Illinois to Thomas B. and Mary A. (Chambers) Metcalf obtained his AB degree at the Illinois State Normal University in