Far too many management programs are ahistorical history appears only in passing. Students may know that a firm described as post-fordist has something to do with henry or even that it was charles babbage who has something to do with their p.C. The biographical dictionary of management helps make clear why someone would refer to a firm as being morganized or taylorized why one would refer to a theory as friedmanesque or galbraithian why one would refer to the pioneering work of ivy lee or why any of approximately 600 other individuals are important to the study of management science. --Louis cain the biographical dictionary of management is a major new reference work covering the growth and development of management as a discipline over the last four thousand years from the merchant princes of assyria and tyre to the online entrepreneurs of the late twentieth century. Over 600 entries provide coverage not only of important figures -- henry ford adam smith frederick winslow taylor henri fayol jack welch lyndall fownes urwick alfred p. Sloan and others -- but also many who contributed on a smaller scale like mitsui takatoshi the founder of mitsui ida minerva telfer a pioneering writer on the role of women in business decius alpinus the roman businessman who developed an m-form business nearly two millennia before alfred chandler first conceptualized it or arie de geus whose early work on knowledge as a corporate asset is now at the heart of most thinking on knowledge manage...
