• Source: List of business theorists

This is an annotated list of important business writers. It is in alphabetical order based on last name. For quick navigation, click on one of the letters:




A


David Aaker (born 1938) - marketing, brand strategy
Wil van der Aalst
James Abegglen (1926–2007) - management and business in Japan
Bodo Abel
Russell L. Ackoff (1919–2009) - operations research, organizational theory
John Adair (born 1934) - leadership
Karol Adamiecki (1866–1933) - management
Ichak Adizes
Niclas Adler (born 1971) - Swedish organizational theorist
Charles Constance César Joseph Matthieu d'Agoult
Yoji Akao
Ali Akdemir
Howard E. Aldrich (born 1940s) - American sociologist and organizational theorist
Leon P. Alford (1877–1942) - scientific management
Tim Ambler (born 1938) - marketing effectiveness
Igor Ansoff (1918–2002) - strategic management
Ingeman Arbnor
Chris Argyris (1923–2013) - learning systems, learning organization
Horace Lucian Arnold (1837–1915)
Neal Ashkanasy




B


Stephen R. Barley (born 1953) - technology, organizational change, organizational culture
Chester Barnard (1886–1961) - management
Gary S. Becker
Charles Bedaux (1886–1944) - scientific management
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) - leadership studies
Per Olof Berg (born 1946) - Swedish organizational theorist
Manfred Berliner
Björn Bjerke
Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett (1897–1974) - operations research
Ken Blanchard
Charles Bosanquet
Matthew Boulton (1728–1809) - labor productivity
Marvin Bower
Richard Boyatzis (born 1946) - emotional intelligence, behavior change, and competence
Leland Lawrence Briggs (1893–1975) - American accounting scholar
John Seely Brown
Wilfred Brown, Baron Brown
Nils Brunsson (born 1946) - institutionalized hypocrisy of organizations
Lawton Burns (born c. 1950) - health care systems




C


Noel Capon
Charles U. Carpenter
Jean-Luc Cerdin
James A. Champy - business process reengineering (1990s)
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. - management, Pulitzer prize for The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977)
Clayton M. Christensen
Alexander Hamilton Church - industrial management (1900s–1910s)
C. West Churchman
Stewart Clegg
Ronald Coase - transaction costs, Coase theorem, theory of the firm (1950s) (Nobel Prize in 1991)
James C. Collins - vision statement, strategic planning and BHAG (1990s)
Morris Llewellyn Cooke
Cary Cooper
Stephen Covey
Philip B. Crosby
Richard Cyert
Barbara Czarniawska




D


Robert Dahlstrom (born 1958) - American organizational theorist, works on international marketing
David Dale
Thomas H. Davenport
George S. Day - marketing (1970s)
Jeff DeGraff
Morris H. DeGroot
W. Edwards Deming - statistical quality control (1950s, 1960s)
Daniel R. Denison
Eric Dent
Hugo Diemer - industrial engineering (1910s)
Jan Dietz
Patrick Dixon
Henk van Dongen
Sytse Douma
Wiebe Draijer
Peter Drucker (1909–2005) - management (1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s)
Anna Dubois (born 1962) - Swedish organizational theorist
Peter Dunn




E


Andrew S.C. Ehrenberg
Michael Eisner
Chester Elton
Tunç Erem
Richard F. Ericson
Hans-Erik Eriksson (born 1961) - Swedish computer scientist and organizational theorist
Agner Krarup Erlang
Hamid Etemad




F


Henri Fayol - management (1910s)
Armand V. Feigenbaum - quality control (1950s)
Tim Ferriss
Harry Anson Finney (1886–1966) - American accountancy author
Ronald Fisher - statistics (1920s)
Mary Follett - organizational studies (1930s)
Nicolai J. Foss
R. Edward Freeman
Mike L. Fry
Adrian Furnham




G


John Kenneth Galbraith - The New Industrial State (1967)
Henry Gantt - Gantt chart (20th century)
Burleigh B. Gardner (1902–1985) - motivation research
Michael Gerber - E-Myth Revisited
Jamshid Gharajedaghi (born 1940) - American organizational theorist, management consultant, and Adjunct Professor of Systems Thinking
Sumantra Ghoshal
John P. van Gigch
Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.
Frank Gilbreth - time and motion study (20th century)
Seth Godin
Eliyahu M. Goldratt - theory of constraints (1980s)
Marshall Goldsmith
Daniel Goleman
Vytautas Andrius Graiciunas - management (1933)
Lynda Gratton
C. Jackson Grayson
Danny Greefhorst (born 1972) - Dutch enterprise architect
James Bray Griffith (1871–1937) - American business theorist
William H. Gruber (born 1935) - American organizational theorist
Erich Gutenberg - theory of the firm (1950s)




H


Stephan H. Haeckel
Stephen G. Haines
Noel Frederick Hall
Brian Halligan
Gary Hamel (born 1954) - core competency, strategic management (1990s)
Michael Hammer - business process reengineering (1990s)
Charles Handy - organisational behaviour (1990s)
Paul Harmon - management author
G. Charter Harrison (1881–1959) - Anglo-American management consultant and cost account pioneer
Sven A. Haugland (born 1948) - Norwegian organizational theorist
David L. Hawk
Igor Hawryszkiewycz (born 1948) - American computer scientist and organizational theorist
Robert Heller
Frederick Herzberg - two factor theory, motivation theory, job enrichment (1970s)
Steen Hildebrandt
Charles DeLano Hine
Geert Hofstede
Kenneth Hopper
Yasheng Huang
Albert S Humphrey - strategic planning, SWOT analysis (1970s, 1980s)
Shelby D. Hunt
Walter Hunziker




I


Masaaki Imai (born 1930) - Kaizen (continuous improvement) (1980s, 1990s, 2000s)
Anders Indset (born 1978)
Kaoru Ishikawa (1915–1989) - Ishikawa diagram in industrial process; quality circles (1960s)




J


Mike Jackson - systems scientist
Lars Jaeger
John Jantsch
Dave Jenks
Anita Jose
Joseph M. Juran (1904–2008) - quality control, especially quality circles (1960s, 1970s)




K


Rosabeth Moss Kanter - business management and change management (1977)
Robert S. Kaplan - management accounting and balanced scorecard (1990s)
Dexter Keezer
Kevin Lane Keller
Roy B. Kester (1882–1965) - American accountancy scholar
Tarun Khanna
Walter Kickert (born 1950) - Dutch academic and professor of public management
John Warren Kindt
Charles Edward Knoeppel
Richard Koch
Lars Kolind
Monika Kostera
Philip Kotler - marketing management and social marketing (1970s, 1980s, 1990s)
John Kotter - organizational behaviour and management (1980s, 1990s)
Vladimir Kvint - strategy




L


John Christian Langli
Jean-Claude Larréché
Kyoung Jun Lee
William Henry Leffingwell - office management (1910s–1940s)
Paul Leonardi
Harry Levinson
Theodore Levitt - marketing and globalization (1960s, 1970s)
Michael Lewis
Peter Lindgren (born 1961) - Danish organizational theorist
John Lintner - capital asset pricing model (1970s)
Ted London
Juan Antonio Pérez López
Jay Lorsch
Michael Lounsbury
Randi Lunnan (born 1963) - Norwegian organizational theorist, works on strategic alliances
Reijo Luostarinen (1939–2017) - Finnish organisational theorist
James Alexander Lyons (1861–1920) - American accountancy author




M






N


Peter Naudé - marketing and business networks
Nicholas Negroponte - human-computer interaction (1970s–1990s)
Nobuo Noda - Japanese business scholar
Kjell A. Nordström
Arne Nygaard (born 1957) - Norwegian organizational theorist




O


George S. Odiorne - management by objectives
Kenichi Ohmae - 3C's model and strategic management (1970s, 1980s)
Taiichi Ohno - Toyota Production System, lean manufacturing, just in time (1980s)
David Ogilvy - advertising (1960s–1980s)
Sharon Oster
William Ouchi - Theory Z (1980s)
Robert Owen - cooperatives (1810s)




P






R


J. Donald R. de Raadt
Navi Radjou
N. Ravichandaran
Jeffrey Rayport
W. Charles Redding
Robert Reich
Fred Reichheld
Reg Revans
Jeremy Rifkin
Fritz Roethlisberger
Georges Romme
Mike Rother




S






T


Genichi Taguchi (1924–2012) - Taguchi methods, quality control
Don Tapscott
Frederick Winslow Taylor - scientific management, time and motion study (20th century)
Sridhar Tayur
David Teece
Vern Terpstra
Jacques Thomassen (born 1945) - Dutch organizational theorist
C. Bertrand Thompson
Alvin Toffler
Thomas Thorburn (1913–2003) - Swedish Professor of Business Administration
Jean-Marie Toulouse
Phil Town
Henry R. Towne - scientific management (1890s)
John Tregoning - factory management (1890s)
Jack Trout
Josiah Tucker
Bruce Tuckman - stages of team development
Dominique Turpin




U


Yoichi Ueno
Werner Ulrich
Lyndall Urwick




V


Peter Vaill
Andrew H. Van de Ven
Jan Vanthienen
Hal Varian
Antoaneta Vassileva
Henrik Virkkunen (1917–1963) - Finnish organizational theorist and professor of accounting
Henk Volberda
Victor Vroom




W


André de Waal
Jean-Baptiste Waldner - computer-integrated manufacturing
Alexandra Waluszewski (born 1956) - Swedish organizational theorist
James Watt (1736–1819) - Industrial Revolution, division of labour, standard operating procedures, cost control (1810s)
Max Weber - a founder of the modern study of sociology and public administration (1900)
Frank E. Webner (1865–1940s) - American consulting cost accountant
Karl E. Weick
Lawrence Welch (born 1945) - Australian organisational theorist
Joseph Wharton (1826–1909) - protective tariffs, business cycles, Wharton School
Alasdair A. K. White
John Whitmore (c. 1870–1937) - American accountant, contributed to standard costing
Eli Whitney (1765–1825) - interchangeable parts, cost accounting (1810s, 1820s)
Jennifer Wilby
Thomas Williams of Llanidan
Oliver E. Williamson - transaction costs, theory of the firm (1960s)
Mark W. Willis
Pieter Winsemius
Clinton Edgar Woods (1863–c. 1930) - factory organization (1900s)




Y


Candace A. Yano




Z


Udo Zander (born 1959) - Swedish organizational theorist




See also


List of economists




References

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