Chapters/Significant Entries on Peter F. Drucker

compiled by I. Straub with Peter Starbuck

BOOK TITLE

Date Published

1

Review of the "The End of Economic Man"

by Winston Churchill

Times Literary Supplement

1939

(27 May)

2

The Golden Book of Management

New expanded edition in two parts

A Historical Record of the Life and Work of

More Than One Hundred Pioneers

Lyndall F. Urwick, Editor of Part One

William b. Wolf, Editor of Part Two

amacom - American Management Association

New York 1956, 1984 AMACON Book Division

1956

 

 

 

 

 

1984

3

The Man who came to listen

by Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt

(for the anthology Peter Drucker: Contributions to Business Enterprise (eds. Tony Bonaparte, John E. Flaherty, New York University Press, 1970)

The first two paragraphs of the text explicitly deal with the cultural influence which Drucker's hometown of Vienna had on his world view

1970

4

MBO: A Backward Glance

by George S Ordiorne

Business Horizons

1978

(October)

5

Why Read Peter Drucker?

by Alan Kantrow, (Critique)

Harvard Business Review

1980

(Jan/Feb)

6

Management By Objectives: As Developed by Peter Drucker, Assisted by Harold Smiddy

by Ronald G Greenwood

Academy of Management Review

1981

7

The Innovators The Essential Guide to Business Thinkers, Achievers and Entrepreneurs

by William Davis

London: Ebury Press

1987

8

Writers on Organisation 4th Edition

by Derek S Pugh and David J Hickson – grouped under section of The Management of Organisation – featured in short chapter

(First Edition 1964)

Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications Inc.

1989

9

Makers of Management Men and Women who changed the Business World

by David Clutterbuck and Stuart Crainer

Oxford: Capstone Publishing Ltd.

1990

E

10

Guide to the Management Gurus

Chapter under heading of Primary talks for effective Management

by Carol Kennedy

London: Century Business Books

1991

11

Managing with the Guru’s – Top Level guidance on 20 management techniques

by Carol Kennedy

London: Century Business Books

1994

E

12

The Evolution of Management Thought 4th Edition

by Daniel A Wren

(First Edition 1972)

New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

1994

13

Taylorism Transformed: Scientific Management Theory Since 1945?

by Stephen P. Waring

Chapter 4: "Virtue as Managerial Vision. Peter F. Drucker and Management by Objectives"

UNC Press

1994

14

Leading Change - Overcoming the Ideology of Comfort and the Tyranny of Custom

by James O’Toole

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

1995

15

The Witch Doctors (Peter Drucker the Guru’s Guru) What the Management Gurus are Saying, Why it Matters and How to Make Sense of It

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

London: Mandarin Paperbacks 

1996

E

16

Management Gurus What makes them and how to become one

by Andrzej A Huczynski

London: International Thomson Business Press

1996

E

17

 International Encyclopedia of Business and Management

Edited by Malcolm Warner

London: Routledge

1996

E

18

The Writings of Peter Drucker – A review of a personal appreciation

by Peter Starbuck

Management Research Centre, University of Wolverhampton, England

1997

E

19

The Ultimate Business Library – 50 book that made Management

by Stuart Crainer

Foreword and commentary by Gary Hamel. Featured are short chapters on : The Practice of Management and The Age of Discontinuity

Oxford: Capstone Publishing Ltd.

1997

20

Management Ideas …in brief

by Sultan Kermally

Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd.

1997

21

The Ultimate Business Guru Book 50 Thinkers who made management

by Stuart Crainer

Oxford: Capstone Publishing Ltd

1998

22

Management InnovatorsThe People and Ideas That Have Shaped Modern Business

by Daniel A Wren and the late Ronald G Greenwood

Oxford: Oxford University Press

1998

23

The Guru Guide - The Best Ideas of the Top Management Authors by Joseph Boyett and Jimmie Boyett

New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

1998

24

The IEBM Handbook of Management Thinking.

Edited by Malcolm Warner. Chapter by Morgan Witzel

London: International Thomson Business Press

1998

E

25

 Understanding Management Gurus in a Week by Bob Norton and Cathy Smith

Corby, Northants, England: Hodder & Stoughton

1998

26

 Great Writers on Organisations - Second Omnibus Edition by Derek S Pugh and David Hickson (similar to 5)

Hampshire England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

1999

27

 The Capitalist Philosophers

by Andrea Gabor .

Chapter on Peter F Drucker The Big Idea Man

New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

2000

E

28

The Biographical Directory of Management Vols I & II

Edited by Morgan Witzel

Entry on Peter F Drucker by Peter Starbuck

Bristol: Thoemmes Press

2001

29

Financial Times Handbook of Management 2nd Edition

Edited by Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove

2001

30

The Next Big Idea The Big Ideas for Business in the 21st Century

by Carol Kennedy

London: Random House Business Books

2001

31

Business Minds

by Tom Brown, Stuart Crainer, Des Dearlove and Jorge N Rodrigues

Financial Times, Prentice Hall

2002

32

Guide to the Management Gurus 4th Edition

by Carol Kennedy

London: Random House Business Books

2002

33

BUSINESS The Ultimate Resource

A Bloomsbury Reference Book Created from the Bloomsbury Business Data Base .

Entry on Drucker based on Peter Starbuck’s Paper edited by Bob Norton “Peter Drucker The Father of Post War Management”

From The Management Thinker Series, The Institute of Management Foundation Corby, UK

2002

34

What Management Is… How it Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business

by Joan Magnetta with the collaboration of Nan Stone

Peter Drucker(s) … influence pervades this book

London: Harper Collins Business (First published by Simon & Schuster USA)

2002

35

Encyclopaedia of New Media

Edited by Steve Jones entry by Ken Friedman

Sage Publications, California

2003

36

False Prophets. The Gurus who creates Modern Management and why their ideas are bad for Business today

by James Hoopes

Cambridge MA: Perseus,

2003

37

The 100 Most influential Management Books you'll never have time to read - the BEST BUSINESS BOOCKS ever
Featured are Drucker's "The Age of Discontinuity" and "The Practice of Management "
Cambridge, MA, USA: Basic Books - A Member of the Perseus Books Group New York

2003

(May)

38

The Academy of Management Executive Edited by Robert C Ford (Volume 17 Number 3)

Introduction: Peter F Drucker’s "The Practice of Management" by Shaker A Zahra

An Interview with Peter Drucker by Shaker A Zahra

"The Practice of Management": Timeless Views and Principles – An Executive Commentary by Carol Wittmeyer

"The Practice of Management": Reflections on Peter Drucker’s Landmark Book – An Academic Commentary by Shaker A Zahra

Joan Magnetta’s book "What Management Is…" – is reviewed in this volume

2003 (August)

39

Invent Radium or I’ll Pull Your Hair

A Memoir

by Doris Drucker

Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press

2004

40

Writers on Organisation 6th Edition

by Derek S Pugh and David J Hickson

Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications Inc.

2007

41

Great Writers on Organisation Third Omnibus Edition

by Derek S Pugh and David Hickson)

Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

2007

42

Guide to the Management Gurus 6th Edition

by Carol Kennedy

London: Random House Business Books

2007