The Canon of Management Thought
15 January 2007 at 8:52 am Peter G. Klein 1 comment
| Peter Klein |
Gordon Smith points us to David Kennedy and William W. Fisher’s edited volume The Canon of American Legal Thought (Princeton, 2006). The volume features the “twenty most important works of American legal thought since 1890.” Click Gordon’s link for the list, which includes a few items familiar to O&M readers (Coase’s 1960 “The Problem of Social Cost”; Calabresi and Melamed’s 1972 “Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability”; and possibly Macaulay’s 1963 “Non-Contractual Relations in Business”). The more recent stuff is mostly “critical legal theory” (pomo alert!).
So, what are your selections for the canon of management thought? Both books and articles are fair game. (I imagine the after-1890 constraint won’t be binding.) You can include works in organizational economics if you like.
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Dennis C. During | 15 January 2007 at 11:02 pm
A Starter List (Books Only):
Porter, Competitive Strategy
Deming, Out of the Crisis
Drucker, The Effective Executive
Mintzberg, The Nature of Managerial Work
Henderson, Perspectives on Experience
Barnard, The Functions of the Executive
Miller & Rice, Systems of Organization
Bradford and Cohen, Influence without Authority
Allen, Getting Things Done
Gulick and Urwick, Papers in the Science of Administration
Gordon, Leadership Effectiveness Training
Goldratt, The Theory of Constraints