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Author Gabor, Andrea.

Title The capitalist philosophers : the geniuses of modern business--their lives, times, and ideas / Andrea Gabor.

Publication Info. New York : Times Business, [2000]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  658.009 G116C    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 384 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-366) and index.
Contents Frederick Winslow Taylor: the father of scientific management -- Mary Parker Follett: the mother of postscientific management -- Chester Barnard: the philosopher king of American management -- Fritz Roethlisberger and Elton Mayo: two creative misfits who invented "human relations" (and put the Harvard Business School on the map) -- Robert S. McNamara: the "bean counters" usher in a new era of scientific management -- Abraham Maslow and Douglas McGregor: from human relations to the frontiers of system dynamics -- W. Edwards Deming: the prophets of the quality movement and the learning organization -- Herbert A. Simon: the needle and the haystack -- Alfred Du Pont Chandler and Alfred Sloan: the historian and the CEO -- Peter F. Drucker: the big idea man.
Subject Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915 -- Influence.
Industrial management -- United States -- History.
Corporations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Industrial sociologists -- United States -- Biography.
Industrial psychologists -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 0812928202
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