Fifty Key Figures in Management

This volume presents 50 short biographies of key individuals who have helped make management what it is today. According to Witzel, this is not a book about “the great and the good”. Instead it is a book about individuals who “have changed our perception of management and helped, even if only in subtle ways, to improve managerial practice around the world”.

In addition, the individuals included have also helped to develop management as a whole and not just some function or aspect of it. The only functional specialists included are those whose influence and ideas have extended beyond their particular...