Management Innovators: The People and Ideas that Have Shaped Modern Business: Daniel A. Wren, the late Ronald G. Greenwood
Editorial Reviews
Management Innovators: The People and Ideas That Have Shaped Modern Business is a penetrating history of the field of management as revealed through profiles of some of its most noteworthy inventors, communicators, financiers, motivators, and gurus. Management historians Daniel Wren and the late Ronald Greenwood explore this virtual who’s who of business pioneers with an eye toward both their significant innovations and the lasting impact they have had on the corporate world. Among the 31 individuals they examine are Eli Whitney, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Nicolo Machiavelli, Abraham Maslow, W. Edwards Demming, and Peter F. Drucker. –Howard Rothman
From Library Journal
Wren (management, Univ. of Oklahoma) and the now deceased business historian Greenwood present a condensed economic history of the lives of 31 individuals who have contributed to modern management methods. Represented are a wide variety of some of the greatest innovators in the fields of manufacturing, communications, inventing, finance, selling, and management. Many of those profiled (Eli Whitney, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, Frederick W. Taylor) can be found in secondary sources. However, the authors look at these individuals from a business and managerial point of view, which sets this book apart. The authors depict, in an easy style, the evolutionary process of idea to product to market and the changes that took place in the way people work. Snapshot views of economic history in “small doses” make this book appealing to students and managers who wish to gain some background information in this area. Recommended.?Bellinda Wise, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City,
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