Management Theory
Management Theory
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The Age Of Discontinuity
Peter Drucker
Drucker predicted the rise of the knowledge worker almost 40 years before the term came into common usage. His definition is much broader than the IT-led version that is currently used. The book gives a valuable insight into the changing nature of management roles and responsibilities in the knowledge economy.
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A Behavioral Theory of the Firm  Cyert, Richard & March, James
A Business and Its Beliefs  Watson, Thomas, Jr
A Future Perfect  Micklethwait, John & Wooldridge, Adrian
Action Learning  Revans, Reg
Administrative Behavior  Simon, Herbert
All the Right Moves  Markides, Constantinos
Barbarians at the Gate  Burrough, Bryan & Helyar, John
Being Digital  Negroponte, Nicholas
Blown to Bits  Evans, Philip & Wurster, Thomas
Blur  Davis, Stan & Meyer, Christopher
Built to Last  Collins, James & Porras, Jerry
Business @ The Speed Of Thought  Gates, Bill
Capital  Marx, Karl
Clicks and Mortar  Pottruck, David S. & Pearce, Terry
Co-opetition  Nalebuff, Barry & Brandenburger, Adam
Competing for the Future  Hamel, Gary & Prahalad, C.K.
Competitive Strategy  Porter, Michael
Complexity  Waldrop, Mitchell
Corporate Strategy  Ansoff, Igor
Corporate-level Strategy  Goold, Michael; Alexander, Marcus & Campbell, Andrew
Digital Capital  Tapscott, Don; Ticoll, David & Lowy, Alex
Digital Darwinism  Schwartz, Evan
Direct from Dell  Dell, Michael
Du système industriel  Saint-Simon, Henri de
Dynamic Administration  Follett, Mary Parker
E-shock 2000  De Kare-Silver, Michael
Emotional Intelligence  Goleman, Daniel
Funky Business  Ridderstråle, Jonas & Nordström, Kjell
Futurize your Enterprise  Siegel, David
General and Industrial Management  Fayol, Henri
Getting Things Done  Allen, David
Getting to Yes  Fisher, Roger & Ury, William
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai  Tsunetomo, Yamamoto
High Stakes, No Prisoners  Ferguson, Charles
How to Win Friends and Influence People  Carnegie, Dale
In Search of Excellence  Peters, Tom & Waterman, Robert
In the Age of the Smart Machine  Zuboff, Shoshana
Information Rules  Shapiro, Carl & Varion, Hal R.
Innovation in Marketing  Levitt, Theodore
Intellectual Capital  Stewart, Thomas
Jack: Straight from the Gut  Welch, Jack
Leaders: Strategies For Taking Charge  Bennis, Warren & Nanus, Burt
Leadership  Giuliani, Rudolph
Leadership  Burns, James MacGregor
Leading Change  Kotter, John
Liar's Poker  Lewis, Michael
Living on Thin Air  Leadbetter, Charles
Made in Japan  Morita, Akio
Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail  Belbin, R. Meredith
Managing  Geneen, Harold
Managing Across Borders  Bartlett, Christopher & Ghoshal, Sumantra
Managing on the Edge  Pascale, Richard
Managing Transitions  Bridges, William
Marketing Management  Kotler, Philip
Maverick!  Semler, Ricardo
Megatrends  Naisbitt, John
Moments of Truth  Carlzon, Jan
Motion Study: A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman  Gilbreth, Frank
Motivation and Personality  Maslow, Abraham
My Life and Work  Ford, Henry
My Years with General Motors  Sloan, Alfred
Natural Capitalism  Hawken, Paul; Lovins, Amory & Lovins, Hunter
New Patterns of Management  Likert, Rensis
No Logo  Klein, Naomi
Now, Discover Your Strengths  Buckingham, Marcus & Clifton, Donald
On Becoming a Leader  Bennis, Warren
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures  Babbage, Charles
On War  von Clausewitz, Karl
Onward Industry  Mooney, James & Reiley, Alan
Organizational Culture and Leadership  Schein, Edgar
Organizational Learning  Argyris, Chris & Schön, Donald
Out of the Crisis  Deming, W. Edwards
Parkinson's Law  Parkinson, C. Northcote
Planning for Quality  Juran, Joseph M.
Principles of Political Economy  Mill, John Stuart
Principles of Political Economy  Ricardo, David
Quest for Prosperity  Matsushita, Konosuke
Real Time  McKenna, Regis
Reengineering the Corporation  Champy, James & Hammer, Michael
Relationship Marketing  McKenna, Regis
Riding the Waves of Culture  Trompenaars, Fons & Hampden-Turner, Charles
Small Is Beautiful  Schumacher, E.F.
Strategy and Structure  Chandler, Alfred
Strategy Safari  Mintzberg, Henry; Ahlstrand, Bruce & Lampel, Joseph
Tableau économique  Quesnay, François
The Age of Discontinuity  Drucker, Peter
The Age of E-tail  Birch, Alex; Gerbert, Philipp & Schneider, Dirk
The Age of Unreason  Handy, Charles
The Art of Japanese Management  Pascale, Richard & Athos, Anthony
The Art of War  Tzu, Sun
The Book of the Five Rings  Musashi, Miyamoto
The Borderless World  Ohmae, Kenichi
The Brand You 50  Peters, Tom
The Caring Economy  McGovern, Gerry
The Change Masters  Kanter, Rosabeth Moss
The Changing Culture of a Factory  Jaques, Elliot
The Clickable Corporation  Rosenoer, Jonathan; Armstrong, Douglas & Gates, Russell
The Cluetrain Manifesto  Levine, Rick; Locke, Christopher; Searle, Doc & Weinberger, David
The Competitive Advantage of Nations  Porter, Michael
The Death of Distance  Cairncross, Frances
The Dilbert Principle  Adams, Scott
The E-Myth Revisited  Gerber, Michael
The Entertainment Economy  Wolf, Michael
The Experience Economy  Pine, B. Joseph & Gilmore, James H.
The Fifth Discipline  Senge, Peter
The Functions of the Executive  Barnard, Chester
The General Theory of Employment  Keynes, John Maynard
The HP Way  Packard, David
The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization  Mayo, Elton
The Human Side of Enterprise  McGregor, Douglas
The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture  Castells, Manuel
The Innovator's Dilemma  Christensen, Clayton
The Knowledge-creating Company  Nonaka, Ikujiro & Takeuchi, Hirotaka
The Living Company: Habits for Survival in a Turbulent Business Environment  de Geus, Arie
The Machine That Changed the World  Womack, James; Jones, Daniel & Roos, Daniel
The Managerial Grid  Blake, Robert & Mouton, Jane
The Mind of the Strategist  Ohmae, Kenichi
The Motivation to Work  Herzberg, Frederick; Mausner, Bernard & Snyderman, Barbara Bloch
The Nature of Managerial Work  Mintzberg, Henry
The New Corporate Cultures  Deal, Terrence & Kennedy, Allan
The New New Thing  Lewis, Michael
The New Pioneers  Petzinger, Tom
The One Minute Manager  Blanchard, Kenneth & Johnson, Spencer
The Organization Man  Whyte, William
The Peter Principle  Peter, Laurence
The Practice of Management  Drucker, Peter
The Prince  Machiavelli, Niccolò
The Principles Of Scientific Management  Taylor, Frederick Winslow
The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning  Mintzberg, Henry
The Theory of Economic Development  Schumpeter, Joseph
The Theory of Social and Economic Organization  Weber, Max
The Third Wave  Toffler, Alvin
The Tipping Point  Gladwell, Malcolm
The Visionary's Handbook  Wacker, Watts & Taylor, Jim
The Wealth of Nations  Smith, Adam
The Will to Manage  Bower, Marvin
Theory Z  Ouchi, William
Toyota Production System  Ohno, Taiichi
Up the Organization  Townsend, Robert
What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School  McCormack, Mark
Work This Way  Tulgan, Bruce