Management Laureates: A Collection of Autobiographical Essays

Management Laureates: A Collection of Autobiographical Essays continues in the belief that it is difficult to fully understand an individuals work without knowing a great deal about the person behind that work. To this end, the sixth volume in this series provides insight into the personal and intellectual lives the frustrations and triumphs of the management disciplines leading thinkers. Its readers will gain not only behindthescenes insights into the disciplines historical development, but also a deeper understanding of what management is and is becoming. As with its predecessors the present volume permits readers to examine transhistoric and timespecific social policies, practices, and structures created and experienced by succeeding generations of management scholars. In doing so, it offers an increased appreciation, through an understanding of other lives in other times and places, of the evolving nature of the manageme