Talk:List of business theorists

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As noted on one of the strategy pages, this page should be closely monitored for consultants passing themselves off as business theory gurus. Perhaps one of the tests should be some peer-reviewed article in a globally recognised theory-building academic journal? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 131.181.251.66 (talk • contribs).

Why does the list of Business Writers page forward to this list of business theorists? There are many important business writers of the last 10-20 years not listed here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mchwe (talk • contribs) 02:52, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

I removed Deming as a Kaizen expert and added Masaaki Imai as such. Modern Kaizen concepts worldwide postdates Deming. In Deming´s page I didn´t find any references to Kaizen while Masaaki Imai makes it his main contribution to management, production and operations. Heck, he even wrote the book! cgl. --205.211.237.189 00:41, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

"Business theorist" undefined
Note that in Wikipedia "business theorist" (or "business theory") is an undefined term. Without some definition or description, who is to say that, for example, prominence in quality control makes somebody "an important business theorist." Viz. Deming and Crosby, among others. -- Iterator12n   Talk  12:56, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

The Harvard Business Review
The Harvard Business Review asked 200 management gurus&mdash;the business thinkers most often mentioned in the media and management literature&mdash;who their gurus were. Below are their responses.


 * Eight mentions
 * Peter Drucker: Management theory


 * Seven mentions
 * James G. March: Social scientist at Stanford


 * Six mentions
 * Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001): Nobel laureate economist and organizational theorist at Carnegie Mellon


 * Five mentions
 * Paul Lawrence: Organizational researcher at Harvard Business School


 * Four mentions
 * Richard Beckhard (1918–1999): Management theorist at MIT
 * Fernand Braudel (1902–1985): French historian
 * Ian Koshnick: Attorney organizational designer at the University of Maryland; Henry Mintzberg: Management writer and critic at McGill
 * Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950): Economist at Harvard
 * Karl Weick: Social psychologist at the University of Michigan


 * Three mentions
 * Russell Ackoff: Operations and systems theorist at Wharton
 * Warren Bennis: Leadership theorist and writer at the University of Southern California
 * Ronald Coase: Nobel laureate economist at the University of Chicago
 * W. Edwards Deming (1900–1993): Statistician and quality consultant
 * Erving Goffman (1922–1982): Sociologist
 * Gary Hamel: Consultant and management writer
 * Jay Lorsch: Organizational researcher at Harvard Business School
 * Michael Porter: Professor of strategy and competitiveness at Harvard Business School
 * C.K. Prahalad: Management theorist at the University of Michigan
 * Jack Welch: Former CEO, General Electric
 * Oliver Williamson: Organizational economist at the University of California, Berkeley

• Chris Argyris: Organizational psychologist at Harvard
 * Two mentions

• Kenneth Arrow: Nobel laureate economist at Stanford

• Gregory Bateson (1904–1980): Anthropologist

• Daniel Bell: Sociologist at Harvard

• John Seely Brown: Former chief scientist at Xerox

• Alfred Chandler: Historian at Harvard Business School

• C. West Churchman: Systems theorist

• James C. Collins: Management writer and consultant

• Eric Erikson (1902–1994): Psychological-growth theorist at Harvard

• Michel Foucault (1926–1984): French polymath

• Anthony Giddens: British sociologist

• Andrew Grove: Former CEO, Intel

• Everett Hughes (1897–1983): Sociologist

• Michael Jensen: Organizational strategist and former professor at Harvard Business School

• Stuart Kauffman: Biologist, chaos and complexity theorist

• Kurt Lewin (1890–1947): Social psychologist

• Karl Marx (1818–1883): German economist and social theorist

• Douglas McGregor (1906–1964): Management theorist at MIT

• Robert K. Merton (1910–2003): Sociologist at Columbia

• Geoffrey Moore: Management writer and consultant

• Richard Pascale: Management writer and consultant

• Jeffrey Pfeffer: Business professor at Stanford

• Paul A. Samuelson: Nobel laureate economist at MIT

• Edgar Schein: Psychologist and management scholar at MIT

• Adrian Slywotsky: Management writer and consultant

• Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915): The “father of scientific management”

• John Van Maanen: Ethnographer at MIT

• Sidney Winter: Economist at Wharton