(GM), Eds. John C. Wood and Michael C. Wood (2003). Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management. (New York, NY: Routledge, 896 p.). Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966; General Motors Corporation--Management; Industrial management. 

(Frederick Taylor), Daniel Nelson (1980). Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management. (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 259 p.). Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915; Industrial management--United States--History; Industrial engineers--United States--Biography.

(Frederick Taylor), Charles D. Wrege and Ronald G. Greenwood (1991). Frederick W. Taylor, the Father of Scientific Management: Myth and Reality. (Homewood, IL: Business One Irwin, 286 p.). Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915; Industrial engineers--United States--Biography.

(Frederick Taylor), Robert Kanigel (1997). The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency. (New York, NY: Viking, 675 p.). Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915; Industrial engineering; Industrial management.

(Thyssen Industrie AG Henschel), Jeffrey R. Fear (2005). Organizing Control: August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 956 p.). Thyssen, August, 1842-1926; Dinkelbach, Heinrich, b. 1891; Thyssen & Co. (Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany)--History; Vereinigte Stahlwerke Aktiengesellschaft--History; Industrial management--Germany--History; Industrialists--Germany--History. 

James C. Abegglen (2006). 21st-Century Japanese Management: New Systems, Lasting Values. (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 194 p.). Chairman of Asia Advisory Services, Director of Learning Technologies (Nippon Fund and Nikkei Science). Industrial management--Japan. Reassessment of financial systems, personnel management methods, R&D capabilities, role of corporation in Japanese society. 

Eds. Masahiko Aoki and Ronald Dore (1994). The Japanese Firm: The Sources of Competitive Strength. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 410 p.). Corporations--Japan; Industrial organization--Japan.

Chester I. Barnard; with an introduction by Kenneth R. Andrews (1968). The Functions of the Executive. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 334 p. [30th anniversary ed.]). Executives; Management; Industrial sociology.

Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal (1989). Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 274 p.). International business enterprises--Management. See Doz book in Knowledge Management section.

ed. James P. Baughman (1969). The History of American Management; Selections from the Business History Review. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 252 p.). Industrial management--United States--History--Addresses, essays, lectures; Corporations--United States--History--Addresses, essays, lectures.

Jack Beatty (1998). The World According to Peter Drucker. (New York, NY: Free Press, 204 p.). Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, 1909- ; Management--History.

Adolf A. Berle and Gardiner C. Means (1968). The Modern Corporation and Private Property. (New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 380 p. [rev. ed.]). Corporations -- United States; Corporation law -- United States.

Michael H. Best (2001). The New Competitive Advantage: The Renewal of American Industry. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 286 p.). Competition--United States; Industrial management--United States; Comparative organization.

ed. Elkan Blout; [with an introduction by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.] (1996). The Power of Boldness: Ten Master Builders of American Industry Tell Their Success Stories. (Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, 214 p.). Businesspeople--United States--Biography; Industrialists--United States--Biography; Inventors--United States--Biography; Entrepreneurship--United States--Case studies; Family-owned business enterprises--Case studies; Industries--United States--History.

Readings Selected by Joseph L. Bower (1991). The Craft of General Management. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 344 p.). Industrial management; Management.

Eds. Youssef Cassis, Francois Crouzet, Terry Gourvish (1995). Management and Business in Britain and France: The Age of the Corporate Economy. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 239 p.). Industrial management--Great Britain--History--Congresses; Industrial management--France--History--Congresses; Executives--Training of--Great Britain--History--Congresses; Executives--Training of--France--History--Congresses; Consolidation and merger of corporations--Great Britain--History--Congresses; Consolidation and merger of corporations--France--History--Congresses.

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. and Stephen Salsbury, with the assistance of Adeline Cook Strange (1971). Pierre S. Du Pont and The Making of the Modern Corporation. (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 722 p.). DuPont, Pierre Samuel, 1870-1954; E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company; General Motors Corporation.

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1977). The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 608 p.). Industrial management--United States--History; Industrial organization--United States--History; Industries--United States.

Edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1979). Precursors of Modern Management. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 2 vols. [orig. pub. 1832, 1834]). Springfield Armory (U.S.); Spinning machinery; Cotton manufacture--Great Britain. 

Edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1979). Managerial Innovation at General Motors. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 118 p.). General Motors Corporation--Management--History. 

Edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Herman Daems (1980). Managerial Hierarchies: Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Modern Industrial Enterprise. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 237 p.). Industrial organization--History--Case studies; Big business--History--Case studies; Business enterprises--History--Case studies; Industrial policy--History--Case studies. Harvard studies in business history.

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1990). Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 463 p.). Industrial management--United States--History; Industrial organization--United States--History; Corporations--United States--Case studies.

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Thomas K. McCraw, Richard S. Tedlow (1996). Management: Past and Present: A Casebook on the History of American Business. (Cincinnati, OH: South-Western College Pub., 1 vol.). Industrial management--United States--History; Management--United States--History.

Chan Sup Chang and Nahn Joo Chang (1994). The Korean Management System: Cultural, Political, Economic Foundations. (Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 204 p.). Management--Korea (South); Corporate culture--Korea (South); Labor policy--Korea (South); Korea (South)--Economic conditions--1960-.

Kae H. Chung, Hak Chong Lee, Ku Hyun Jung (1997). Korean Management: Global Strategy and Cultural Transformation. (New York,. NY: W. de Gruyter, 268 p.). Management--Korea (South); Corporate culture--Korea (South); Industries--Korea (South).

William A. Cohen (2007). A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World’s Greatest Management Teacher. (New York, NY: AMACOM, 258 p.). First Graduate of Drucker's Doctoral Program. Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Cohen, William A., 1937- ; Management; Executives--Training of. Many of Drucker’s teachings that were offered to  students in classroom, informal settings, not in books:1) what everybody knows is frequently wrong, 2) why everyone should approach problems with their ignorance, 3) top executives should stay no longer than six years, 4) only boss can do some so-called menial tasks, 5) what everyone needs to be effective manager, 6) why self-confidence is necessity.

Charles J. Cox and Cary L. Cooper (1988). High Flyers: An Anatomy of Managerial Success. (New York, NY: Blackwell, 186 p.). Success in business.

Stuart Crainer (1999). The 75 Greatest Management Decisions Ever Made. (New York, NY: AMACOM, 239 p.). Decision making--Case studies; Decision making--History; Management--Case studies; Management--History.

Stuart Crainer; foreword and commentary by Gary Hamel (1997). The Ultimate Business Library: 50 Books That Shaped Management Thinking. (New York, NY: AMACOM, 323 p.). Industrial management--Bibliography; Industrial management--Book reviews.

Stuart Crainer; foreword by Bruce A. Pasternack (2000). The Management Century: A Critical Review of 20th Century Thought and Practice. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 265 p.). Management.

Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak ; with H. James Wilson (2003). What's the Big Idea?: Creating and Capitalizing on the Best Management Thinking. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 242 p.). Creative ability in business; Knowledge management; Success in business. 

Peter F. Drucker (1954). The Practice of Management. (New York, NY: Harper, 404 p.). Professor of Management (Claremont). Industrial management--United States. Author's first book on the subject - Drucker absorbed management across the table from Alfred P. Sloan. Widely influential work published during Eisenhower's first term.

--- (1985). Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices. (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 839 p.). Professor of Management (Claremont). Management. Author's opus became a best seller in the 1960's before OPEC's ascendancy or the Japanese auto invasion.

--- (1986). Managing for Results. (New York, NY: Perennial Library, 240 p.). Professor of Management (Claremont). Industrial management; Decision making. A management guide for all seasons: "Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems; "Any leadership position is likely to be transitory and short-lived...What exists is getting old". Pertinent question for managers: "is not how to do things right but how to find the right things to do." Effectiveness trumps efficiency: "The only truly way to cut costs is to cut an activity altogether. There is little point in trying to do cheaply what should not be done at all."

--- (1995). Managing in a Time of Great Change. (New York, NY: Dutton, 371 p.). Management; Organization.

--- (1996). The Executive in Action: Managing for Results, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Effective Executive. (New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 724 p.). Industrial management; Small business--Management; Executive ability; Creative ability in business.

Piers Dudgeon (2001). Breaking Out of the Box: The Biography of Edward de Bono. (London, UK: Headline, 312 p.). De Bono, Edward, 1933- ; Lateral thinking; Businessmen--Great Britain--Biography. 

W. Jack Duncan (1989). Great Ideas in Management: Lessons from the Founders and Foundations of Managerial Practice. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 286 p.). Management--History.

Elizabeth Edersheim (2006). The Definitive Drucker. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 289 p.). Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005.; Management; Leadership. Insights divided into five main themes 1) Connecting with customers; 2) Innovating without abandoning what works; 3) Developing lasting partnerships; 4) Creating and retaining knowledge workers; 5) Establishing disciplined decision making. 

John E. Flaherty (1999). Peter Drucker: Shaping the Managerial Mind. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 445 p.). Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, 1909-; Industrial management.

Mark B. Fuller, John C. Beck (2006). Japan's Business Renaissance: How the World's Greatest Economy Revived, Renewed, and Reinvented Itself. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 226 p.). Chairman, and CEO of the Monitor Group; Former Director of International Research for Accenture. Management--Japan; Corporations, Foreign--Japan; Leadership; Success in business; Industrial management. Japan's powerhouse methods - harness change, develop renewal strategies, cultivate an entrepreneurial mind.

Adrian Furnham (2005). The People Business: Psychological Reflections on Management. (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 208 p.). Professor of Psychology at the University College London. Psychology, Industrial; Management--Psychological aspects.

Staffan Furusten (1999). Popular Management Books: How They Are Made and What They Mean for Organisations. (New York, NY: Routledge, 192 p.). Management literature. Based on Swedish version titled, Den populära managementkulturen.

Andrea Gabor (2000). The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business, Their Lives and Ideas. (New York, NY: Times Business, 384 p.). Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1853-1929 --Influence; Roethlisberger, F. J. (Fritz Jules), 1898-1974 --Influence; Mayo, Elton, 1880-1949 --Influence; Industrial management--United States--History; Scientific management--United States--History; Corporations--United States--History--20th century; Industrial sociologists--United States--Biography; Industrial psychologists--United States--Biography. 

Claude S. George, Jr. (1972). The History of Management Thought. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 223 p. (2nd ed.)). Management-History

--- (1985). Supervision in Action: The Art of Managing Others. (Reston, VA: Reston Pub. Co., 424 p. (4th ed.)). Supervision of employees.

Daniel Goleman (1998). Working with Emotional Intelligence. (New York, NY: Bantam Books, 383 p.). Executive ability; Management--Psychological aspects; Emotional intelligence; Personality development; Emotions and cognition.

Ronald G. Greenwood (1974). Managerial Decentralization; a Study of the General Electric Philosophy. (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 176 p.). General Electric Company; Decentralization in management--United States--Case studies; Electric industries--United States--Management--Case studies.

Gary Hamel (2007). The Future of Management. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 288 p.). Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management (London Business School). Management; Technological innovations--Management; Knowledge management. Management innovation fuels long-term business success (new ways of mobilizing talent, allocating resources, formulating strategies); control, efficiency focus no longer suffices; adaptability, creativity drive business success.

Charles Handy (2008). Myself and Other More Important Matters. (New York, NY: AMACOM, 213 p.). Handy, Charles B.; Business economists--Great Britain--Biography; Social scientists--Great Britain--Biography. Insight into business, careers, choices in life;  individual management style; how to develop one’s career goals in line with personal values, sense of ethics; role of work in life, what we truly find fulfilling.

Philip R. Harris, Robert T. Moran (2000). Managing Cultural Differences. (Houston, TX: Gulf Pub., 454 p. [5th ed.]). International business enterprises--Management; Acculturation; Cross-cultural studies.

Robert F. Hartley (2003). Management Mistakes and Successes. (New York, NY: Wiley, 365 p. [7th ed.]). Management--Case studies.

American Heritage (1972). Great Stories of American Businessmen, from American Heritage, the Magazine of History. (New York, NY: American Heritage Pub. Co., 382 p.). Businessmen--Biography.

Hayward J. Holbert (1976). A History of Professional Management in American Industry. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 229 p. [Reprint of author's thesis, NYU, 1940]). Industrial management--United States--History.

James Hoopes (2003). False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas Are Bad for Business Today. (Cambridge, MA: Perseus Pub., 320 p.). Industrial management--United States--History; Executive ability--United States--History; Executives--United States--History; Leadership--United States--History; Corporate culture--United States--History; Organizational behavior--United States--History.

Jerry Jasinowski and Robert Hamrin (1995). Making It in America: Proven Paths to Success from Fifty Top Companies. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 350 p.). Success in business--United States--Case studies; Total quality management--United States--Case studies; Manufactures--United States--Case studies; Manufacturing industries--United States--Case studies.

John A. Kay (1995). Why Firms Succeed. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 315 p.). Corporations; Industrial management; Competition; Success in business.

Harold J. Leavitt (1978). Managerial Psychology; An Introduction to Individuals, Pairs, and Groups in Organizations. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 385 p. [4th ed.]). Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior Emeritus (Stanford Graduate School of Business). Industrial management; Psychology, Applied.

Eds. Jeffrey K. Liker, W. Mark Fruin, Paul S. Adler (1999). Remade in America: Transplanting and Transforming Japanese Management Systems. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 418 p.). Industrial management--Japan--Case studies; Industrial management--United States--Case studies; Technology transfer--Japan--Case studies; Technology transfer--United States--Case studies; Comparative management.

Arthur Lipper III with George Ryan (1991). Thriving up and Down the Free Market Food Chain: The Unrestrained Observations (and Advice) of a Business Darwinist. (New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 269 p.). Success in business--Psychological aspects; Entrepreneurship--Psychological aspects.

Robert R. Locke (1989). Management and Higher Education Since 1940: The Influence of America and Japan on West Germany, Great Britain, and France. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 328 p.). Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Germany (West); Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- France; Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Great Britain; Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States; Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Japan.

--- (1996). The Collapse of the American Management Mystique. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 351 p.). Management -- United States -- History; Comparative management.

Joan Magretta (2002). What Management Is: How It Works and Why It's Everyone's Business. (New York, NY: Free Press, 244 p.). Former Strategy Editor (Harvard Business Review), Former Partner (Bain & Company). Management; Industrial management. 

Alfred A. Marcus (2005). Big Winners and Big Losers: The 4 Secrets of Long Term Business Success and Failure. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 400 p.). Edson Spencer Chair of Strategic Management and Technological leadership, Carlson School of Management (University of Minnesota). Success in business--Case studies; Industrial management--Case studies; Corporations--Case studies; Business failures; Strategic planning. Management. Author shows how consistent winners build strategies that drive their success.

Abraham H. Maslow with Deborah C. Stephens and Gary Heil (1998). Maslow on Management. (New York, NY: Wiley, 312 p.). Maslow, Abraham H. (Abraham Harold)--Contributions in management; Maslow, Abraham H. (Abraham Harold)--Diaries; Psychology, Industrial; Self-actualization (Psychology).

Hidemasa Morikawa (2001). A History of Top Management in Japan: Managerial Enterprises and Family Enterprises. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 226 p.). Industrial management--Japan--History; Executives--Japan--History; Family-owned business enterprises--Japan--History. Difference between family-owned firms and professionally managed firms.

Makoto Ohtsu with Tomio Imanari; foreword by Solomon B. Levine (2002). Inside Japanese Business: A Narrative History, 1960-2000. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 459 p.). Industrial management--Japan--History; Corporate culture--Japan--History; Businesspeople--Japan--Interviews.

William G. Ouchi (1981). Theory Z: How American Business Can Meet the Japanese Challenge. (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 283 p.). Industrial management--Japan; Industrial management--United States. Stems from theory of alternative organizational forms expressed by Douglas McGregor in "The Human Side of Enterprise" [1960].

Thomas Petzinger, Jr. (1999). The New Pioneers: The Men and Women Who Are Transforming the Workplace and Marketplace. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 302 p.). Reporter (Wall Street Journal). Industrial management; Corporate culture; Creative ability in business; Employee motivation; Customer relations; Suggestion systems; Psychology, Industrial; Industrial sociology.

Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton (2006). Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 276 p.). Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business; Professor of Management Science and Engineering (Stanford). Industrial management--Decision making. Evidence-based management as a way of organizational life. 

Ed. Christos Pitelis (2002). The Growth of the Firm: The Legacy of Edith Penrose. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 330 p.). Penrose, Edith Tilton; Corporations--Growth; Industrial organization (Economic theory); International business enterprises; Technological innovations--Economic aspects; Capitalism; Human capital; Economic development.

Sidney Pollard (1965). The Genesis of Modern Management; a Study of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 328 p.). Great Britain--Economic conditions; Great Britain--Industries.

Lyman W. Porter, Lawrence E. McKibbin (1988). Management Education and Development: Drift or Thrust into the 21st Century? (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 372 p.). Management -- Study and teaching -- United States.

Phil Rosenzweig (2007). The Halo Effect and Other Business Delusions: Why the Experts Are So Often Wrong--and How To Get It Right. (New York, NY: Free Press, 256 p.). Professor at IMD (International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland). Industrial management--Philosophy; Business enterprises--Public opinion; Fallacies (Logic); Success in business. What drives business success and failure; 9 popular business delusions: 1) Halo Effect; 2) Correlation and Causality; 3) Single Explanations;  4)  Connecting the Dots; 5) Rigorous Research; 6) Lasting Success; 7) Absolute Performance; 8) Wrong End of the Stick; 9) Organizational Physics.

Ed. Henry M. Strage (1992). Milestones in Management: An Essential Reader. (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 497 p.). Management.

John J. Tarrant; foreword by C. Northcote Parkinson (1976). Drucker, The Man Who Invented the Corporate Society. (Boston, MA: Cahners Books, 300 p.). Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, 1909-.

Eds. Mark N. Vamos and David Lidsky; with a foreword by Jim Collins (7/6/2006). Fast Company’s Greatest Hits: Ten Years of the Most Innovative Ideas in Business. (New York, NY: Portfolio, 352 p.). Editor of Fast Company; Senior Editor. Business; Management; Entrepreneurship. Magazine’s best, most enduring articles, generated most buzz, offered deepest insights.

Stephen P. Waring (1991). Taylorism Transformed: Scientific Management Theory Since 1945. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 288 p.). Industrial management--History. 

John F. Wilson (2006). The Making of Modern Management: British Management in Historical Perspective. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 297 p.). Professor of International Business (University of Central Lancashire); Formerly Dean of the Open University Business School. Management -- Great Britain -- History. Evolution of management: 1) as a process or activity; 2) as a structure in any organization; 3) as a group or class of people carrying out certain roles in an organization.

ed. Daniel A. Wren (1979). Early Management Thought. (Brookfield, VT: Dartmouth, 430 p.). Management--History.

Daniel A. Wren (1994). The Evolution of Management Thought. (New York, NY: Wiley, 466 p. [4th ed.]). Management-History.

Daniel A. Wren and Ronald G. Greenwood (1998). Management Innovators: The People and Ideas that Have Shaped Modern Business. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 254 p.). Businesspeople--United States--Biography; Executives--United States--Biography; Industrial management--United States--History.

JoAnne Yates (1989). Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 339 p.). Communication in management; Communication in management--United States--History--Case studies.

Noboru Yoshimura, Philip Anderson (1997). Inside the Kaisha: Demystifying Japanese Business Behavior. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 259 p.). Vice president of Bankers Trust, Tokyo; Associate Professor of business administration at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration (Dartmouth College). Industrial management--Japan; Corporate culture--Japan; National characteristics, Japanese. 

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