Horace Lucian Arnold

Horace Lucian Arnold (June 25, 1837 – January 25, 1915[1]) was an American engineer, inventor, engineering journalist and early American writer on management, who wrote about shop management, cost accounting, and other specific management techniques.[2] He also wrote under the names Hugh Dolnar, John Randol,[3] and Henry Roland. With Henry R. Towne, Henry Metcalfe, Emile Garcke, John Tregoning and Slater Lewis he is known as early systematizer of management of the

Neal Ashkanasy

Neal M. Ashkanasy OAM (born 5 June 1945) is an Australian academic best known for his work on emotions in the workplace.[1] He was honored for his “service to tertiary education, to psychology and to the community.”[2] He began his career as a civil engineer but is now a Professor of Management at the University of Queensland Business School.[3] Early life and education

Stephen R. Barley

Stephen R. Barley (born February 16, 1953) is an American organizational theorist and Christian A. Felipe Professor of Technology Management at the College of Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara. Previously he was The Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Barley’s research focuses on the role of technology

Chester Barnard

Chester Irving Barnard (November 7, 1886 – June 7, 1961) was an American business executive, public administrator, and the author of pioneering work in management theory and organizational studies. His landmark 1938 book, The Functions of the Executive, sets out a theory of organization and of the functions of executives in organizations. The book has been widely assigned in university courses in management theory and organizational

Charles Bedaux

Charles Eugène Bedaux (10 October 1886 – 18 February 1944) was a French-American millionaire who made his fortune developing and implementing the work measurement aspect of scientific management, notably the Bedaux System. Bedaux was friends with British royalty and Nazis alike, and was a management consultant, big game hunter and explorer. In 1934, he was the fifth wealthiest man in the United States. [1] Early years Charles Bedaux was born in

Warren Bennis

Warren Gamaliel Bennis (March 8, 1925 – July 31, 2014) was an American scholar, organizational consultant and author, widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of Leadership studies.[1][2] Bennis was University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and Founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California.[3] “His work at MIT in the 1960s

Per Olof Berg

Per Olof Berg (born July 17, 1946) is a Swedish organizational theorist and Professor in business administration, known for his work on “Corporate culture and organizational symbolism.”[1][2] Biography Born in Strängnäs, Sweden, Berg took an exam as engineer in Industrial Electronics at Västerås Technical Gymnasium. Sequentially he did his military service in Uppsala, and afterwards graduated with an MSc in Business Administration from Lund University in 1970.

Manfred Berliner

Manfred Berliner (born 1853 in Hannover; died 1931) was a German business teacher. Life He was the fifth child of textile merchant Samuel Berliner and brother of Emil Berliner (inventor of the gramophone), Joseph Berliner, and Jacob Berliner. After a merchant apprenticeship, military service in the Franco-Prussian war, and work in bookkeeping, he initially managed membership of

Björn Bjerke

Björn Bjerke (1941–2018) was a Swedish economist, professor in entrepreneurship and small firms at Stockholm University, known for the 1997 book “Methodology for Creating Business Knowledge” written with Ingeman Arbnor. Bjerke received his PhD from the Lund University, where he kept working for some years. Later he held professorships at the Waikato University in New Zealand, the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi

Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett OM CH FRS[5] (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948.[6] In 1925 he became the first person to prove that radioactivity could cause the nuclear transmutation of one chemical element to another.[7] He also made a major contribution in World

Ken Blanchard

Kenneth Hartley Blanchard (born May 6, 1939) is an American author, business consultant and motivational speaker. His writing career includes 60+ published books, most of which are co-authored books. His most successful book, The One Minute Manager, has sold over 15 million copies and been translated into many languages.[1] Blanchard is also the Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies,[2] an

Charles Bosanquet

Charles Bosanquet (23 July 1769 – 20 June 1850) was an English colonial official and writer. Life He was born at Forest House, Essex, the second son of Samuel Bosanquet and Eleanor Hunter. He was educated at Newcome’s School and then in Switzerland.[1] Bosanquet went into trade as a West Indies merchant, initially with John Proctor Anderdon. They were joined by William

Matthew Boulton

Matthew Boulton FRS (BOHL-tən; 3 September 1728 – 17 August 1809) was an English businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and silversmith. He was a business partner of the Scottish engineer James Watt. In the final quarter of the 18th century, the partnership installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engines, which were a great advance on the state of the

Marvin Bower

Marvin Bower (August 1, 1903 – January 22, 2003) was an American business theorist and management consultant associated with McKinsey & Company. Under Bower’s leadership, McKinsey grew from a small engineering and accounting firm to a leader in the consulting industry. Bower, alongside Edwin G. Booz, is regarded one of the individuals most responsible for the rise

Richard Boyatzis

Richard Eleftherios Boyatzis (born October 1, 1946) is a Greek American organizational theorist and Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Organizational Behavior, Psychology, and Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University, Adjunct Professor in People/Organizations at ESADE, as well as HR Horvitz Professor of Family Business. He is considered an expert in the

Leland Lawrence Briggs

Leland Lawrence Briggs (April 24, 1893 – November 12, 1975) was an American accounting scholar, and Professor at the University of Vermont, known as founder of The Accountants Digest, which he edited and published until 1973.[1][2] Biography Briggs was born in Byron, Minnesota to Edward Wellington, a farmer, and Alice (McPeak) Briggs. After primary education in Byron and Rochester, Minnesota, he

John Seely Brown

John Seely Brown (born 1940),[1] also known as “JSB”, is an American researcher who specializes in organizational studies with a particular bend towards the organizational implications of computer-supported activities. Brown served as Director of Xerox PARC from 1990 to 2000 and as Chief Scientist at Xerox from 1992 to 2002; during this time the company played a leading role in the development

Wilfred Brown, Baron Brown

Wilfred Banks Duncan Brown, Baron Brown PC MBE (29 November 1908 – 7 March 1985), was the chairman and the managing director of Glacier Metal Company (1939–1965), author of several books and articles on management and labour issues, university administrator, and United Kingdom’s Minister of State at the Board of Trade (1965–1970). Brown is perhaps best known

Nils Brunsson

Nils Gustav Magnus Brunsson (born 1946) is a Swedish organizational theorist and Professor in Management at Uppsala University. [3][4] He is most known for his works in the field of new institutionalism, such as “The organization of hypocrisy” (1989),[5] “The reforming organization” (1993), and “A world of standards” (2010). Biography Brunsson obtained his MSc in economics in 1969 at the Gothenburg School of Economics and

Lawton Burns

Lawton R. Burns (born 1951) is an American business theorist, Professor of Management and the Chairperson of the Health Care Management Department of The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania,[1] and a Faculty Co-Director for the Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management.[2] Career Burns received a BA in sociology and anthropology in 1971 from Haverford College. Following this, he