André de Waal

André A. de Waal (born June 11, 1960 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch business theorist, consultant, Director at the Center for Organizational Performance, in Hilversum and senior lecturer at Wittenborg University of Applied Science (Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences), known for his contributions on performance management and high performance organizations. Education and Career He received a Master of Science

Jean-Baptiste Waldner

Jean-Baptiste Waldner (born 30 March 1959) is a French engineer, management consultant and author, known for his contributions in the fields of computer-integrated manufacturing,[1] enterprise architecture,[2][3] nanoelectronics, nanocomputers[4][5] and swarm intelligence.[6][7] Biography Waldner received his engineering degree in mechanical engineering from the Université de technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard in 1983, his Dr Engineer in Electronics in 1986 from the École Supérieure d’Électricité, and his doctoral engineering degree in nuclear science

Alexandra Waluszewski

Alexandra Waluszewski (born 1956) is a Swedish organizational theorist, Professor at the Department of Economic History of the Uppsala University, particularly known for her work with Håkan Håkansson on “Managing Technological Development”[1] and “Knowledge and innovation in business and industry.”[2] Life and work In 1983 Waluszewski obtained her BS in Business Studies at the University of Uppsala, where in 1989 she

James Watt

James Watt FRS, FRSE (/wɒt/; 30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819)[1] was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen’s 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world. While working as an instrument maker at the University of

Frank E. Webner

Frank Erastus Webner (1865–1940s[1]) was an American consulting cost accountant, and early management author, known for his work on cost accounting.[2] Life and work Webner had started working in the field of public accountancy in the 1890s.[3] He obtained his Certified Public Accountant license for Illinois and Ohio in 1904, while working for the American Audit Company,

Karl E. Weick

Karl Edward Weick (born October 31, 1936) is an American organizational theorist who introduced the concepts of “loose coupling”, “mindfulness”, and “sensemaking” into organizational studies. He is the Rensis Likert Distinguished University Professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.[1] [2] Early life and education Weick was born on October 31, 1936 in Warsaw, Indiana. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Wittenberg

Lawrence Welch

Lawrence S. Welch (born 1945) is an Australian organisational theorist, Professor of International Business at the Melbourne Business School, known for his work on internationalization[1] and international business operations.[2] Life and work Welch obtained his Diploma of Education at the Newcastle University, his MCom and BCom at the University of New South Wales, and his PhD at the University of Queensland. Welch has

Joseph Wharton

Joseph Wharton (March 3, 1826 – January 11, 1909) was an American industrialist. He was involved in mining, manufacturing and education. He founded the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founded the Bethlehem Steel company, and was one of the founders of Swarthmore College. Early years Wharton was born in Philadelphia in 1826, the fifth child of ten in a liberal Hicksite Quaker family. His parents, William

Alasdair A. K. White

Alasdair Antony Kenneth White (born May 24, 1952) is a British management theorist best known for his work on performance management from a behavioural perspective and in the field of deconcentrated and networked organizations. Along with John Fairhurst, White developed the White-Fairhurst Performance Hypothesis relating to the performance life-cycle. He is also the author of Continuous Quality Improvement and The

John Whitmore

John Whitmore (c. 1870 – March 18, 1937[1]) was an American accountant, lecturer, and disciple of Alexander Hamilton Church, known for presenting “the first detailed description of a standard cost system.”[2] Biography Whitmore had obtained his licence as Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York. He joined the firm of Patterson, Teele & Dennis where he eventually became, and

Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney Jr. (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.[1] Although Whitney himself believed that his invention would reduce the demand for enslaved labor and help hasten the end of southern slavery,

Jennifer Wilby

Jennifer M. Wilby (born 1953) is an American and UK management scientist, and past director of the Centre for Systems Studies, and a senior lecturer and researcher in management systems and sciences in The Business School, University of Hull. She served as president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences for the term 2010–2011. Biography Jennifer Wilby received

Oliver E. Williamson

Oliver Eaton Williamson (September 27, 1932 – May 21, 2020) was an American economist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Elinor Ostrom.[1] His contributions to transaction cost economics and the theory of the firm have been influential in the social sciences,[2][3][4] law and economics. Williamson described his work

Mark W. Willis

Mark Willis is an American business executive and stock holder at Keller Williams Realty, an international real estate franchise with headquarters in Austin, Texas.[1][2][3] Willis was President of Keller Williams Realty prior to 2005 when he took over the position as chief executive officer (CEO).[4] In 2015, Chris Heller succeeded Mark Willis as CEO. Career Willis began his executive

Pieter Winsemius

Pieter Winsemius (born 7 March 1942) is a retired Dutch politician of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businessman. Winsemius worked as a researcher at the Leiden University from February 1966 until October 1970 and as a management consultant at the McKinsey & Company from October 1970 until November 1982. After the election of 1982 Winsemius was appointed as Minister of Housing, Spatial

Clinton Edgar Woods

Clinton Edgar Woods (February 7, 1863 – December 19, 1927) was an electrical and mechanical engineer, inventor, manufacturer of automobiles in Chicago and New York City.[1] He was the author of one of the first books on electric vehicles, and an early management author.[2] Biography Woods was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, where his father was a coachbuilder.[3] “At early age he was left orphan and obligated

Candace A. Yano

Candace A. Yano is Professor and Chair at Haas School of Business’s Operations and Information Technology Management Group, and Professor and former Head of Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, both at University of California, Berkeley.[1] She is also a senior technical consultant on operations management issues for Yano Accountancy Corporation (YAC).[2] Academic work Yano is known for her work in Inventory Theory, Logistics

Udo Zander

Udo Zander (born March 30, 1959) is a Swedish organizational theorist, and Professor in Business Administration at the Stockholm School of Economics until 2012. He is particularly known for his work with Bruce Kogut on knowledge-based theory of the firm.[1][2] Biography Zander obtained his MA in Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics in 1986. On a Fulbright Scholarship

Lao Zi

Laozi (/ˈlaʊdzə/, Chinese: 老子), also romanized as Lao Tzu and various other ways, was a semi-legendary ancient Chinese Taoist philosopher, credited with writing the Tao Te Ching. Laozi is a Chinese honorific, generally translated as “the Old Master”. Although modern scholarship generally regards him as a fictional person, traditional accounts say he was born as Li Er in the state of Chu in the 6th century BC during China’s Spring and Autumn Period, served

Zoroaster

Zoroaster,[a] also known as Zarathustra,[b] is regarded as the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. He is said to have been an Iranian-Aryan prophet who founded a religious movement that challenged the existing traditions of ancient Iranian religion, and inaugurated a movement that eventually became a staple religion in ancient Iran. He was a native speaker of Avestan and lived in the eastern part of the Iranian