This handbook brings together those who have helped shape modern business and management and profiles the international "management gurus", theorists, researchers and practitioners, both historical and contemporary and evaluates their contribution to the field of management theory and practice.

List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Ackoff, Russell L., Robert L. Flood Adler, Nancy, Pat Joynt Ansoff, , H. Igor, Peter H. Antoniou Argyris, Chris, Craig LundbergAston Group, Jerald Hage Barbash, Jack, Noah Meltz Barnard, Chester Irving, Sheila G. Rothwell Bartlett, Christopher A., and Ghoshal, Sumantra, Robin John Bata, Tomas, Milan ZelenyBedaux, Charles E., Ian KesslerBeer, Stafford, Robert L. Flood Bennis, Warren, Rosemary Stewart Benson, Harry, Peter Walton Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart, Maurice Kirby Braverman, Harry, Chris Smith Boulding, Kenneth, Donald Rutherford Burns Tom and Stalker, George M., Derek Pugh Chandler, Alfred Dupont, Jr, Richard Whittington Checkland, Peter, Mike C. Jackson Child, John, Ray Loveridge Churchman, C. West, Robert L. Flood Clegg, Hugh, William Brown Coase, Ronald, Martin Ricketts Crozier, Michael, Jean-Claude Thoenig Deming, William Edwards, Barry Wilkinson DiMaggio, Paul and Powell, Walter W., Peter Clark Downs , Anthony, Richard Butler Drucker, Peter F., Morgen Witzel Dunlop, John Thomas, Michael Poole Emery, Fred, Frank Heller Etzioni, Amitai Werner, Adrian Campbell Fayol, Henri, Adrian Campbell Fiedler, Fred E., Dian-Marie Hosking Flanders, Allan David, Chris Rowley Follett, Mary Parker , Pauline GrahamFord, Henry, Ian Glover Forrester, Jay Wright, David Lane Foucault, Michel, Adrian Campbell Fox, Alan, Paul Edwards Friedman, Milton, John Cunningham Wood Fukuzawa, Yukichi, Shunsaku Nishikawa Galbraith, John Kenneth, Donald Rutherford Gilbreth, Frank Bunker and Gilbreth, Lillian Evelyn Moller, Pauline GrahamGouldner, Alvin W., John Eldridge Gulick, Luther Halsey, Morgen Witzel Hamel, Gary and Prahalad, C. K., Bruce Kogut Hammer, Michael, Matthew Jones Handy, Charles, Morgen Witzel Hannan, Michael and Freeman, John, Arjen van Witteloostuijn Hayek, Friedrick, Jack Birner Herzberg, Frederick, Philippe Bernoux Hofstede, Geert, Monir Tayeb Hopwood, Anthony, Anne Loft Ibuka, Masaru, Etsuo Abe Ishikawa, Kaoru, Mohamed Zairi Iwasaki, Yataro, Etsuo Abe Jaques, Elliott, Gillian Stamp Juran, Joseph M., Mohamed ZairiKanter, Rosabeth Moss, Morgen Witzel Keynes, John Maynard, Victoria Chick Kochan, Thomas, Greg Bamber Kotler, Philip, Carolyn Strong Kotter, John, Rosemary Stewart Lawler, John, John P. Wanous Lawrence, Paul Roger and Lorsch, Jay William, Geoff Mallory Levitt, Theodore, Pierre Berthon Lewin, Kurt, Frank Heller Limperg, Theodore, Kees CamffermanLindblom, Charles Edward, Geoff Mallory Luthans, Fred, Pat Joynt McClelland, David C., Richard E. BoyatzisMcGregor, Donald, Charles Hampden-Turner McLuhan, Herbert Marshall, Morgen Witzel March, James Gardiner and Cyert, Richard Michael, Geoff Mallory Marshall, Alfred, John K. Whitaker Maslow, Abraham H., Adrian Campbell Matsushita, Konosuke, Kevin McCormick Mayo, George Elton, Richard Gillespie Means, Gardiner Coit, Frederic S. Lee Michels, Roberto, Roderick Martin Miles, Raymond E.