From: Arthur G. Bedeian [mailto:
abede@lsu.edu]
Mg-Ed-Dv-ers --
It is a pleasure to accept Charles's kind invitation to provide
more information about the Management Laureates series. To quote from
the Preface to the latest volume in the series:
"As with its predecessors, the sixth volume of Management
Laureates: A Collection of Autobiographical Essays continues
in the belief that it is difficult to fully understand an individuals
work without knowing a great deal about the person behind that work. To
this end, the Management Laureates series has sought to provide insight
into the personal and intellectual lives the frustrations and triumphs
of the management disciplines leading thinkers."
To this end, the Management Laureates series now contains
over 60 autobiographies of the highest achievers in the management
discipline. As editor of the series, I continue to be intrigued by the
various pathways each traveled through life and the many intangibles
that brought them to their current condition. When first contemplating
the possibility of compiling a series of volumes containing the
autobiographies of the management disciplines most distinguished
laureates (in about 1989), I had hoped to gain not only
behind-the-scenes insights into the disciplines historical development,
but also a deeper understanding of what management is and is becoming.
In the ensuing years, I have become aware of what others before me have
long realized, and I would affirm with Paul Valéry (1939/1958), There
is no theory that is not a fragment, carefully prepared, of some
autobiography (p. 58).
As in preceding volumes, editorial intervention has been kept
at a minimum. Once again, all essays are preceded by a photograph and
conclude with a complete bibliography of their authors published works.
Laureates remained free to choose their manner of presentation and the
aspects of their lives they wished to emphasize. A list of contributors
to previous Management Laureates volumes follows:
H. Igor Ansoff, Frederick I. Herzberg, Lyman W. Porter
Chris Argyris, Robert J. House, Edward H. Schein
Bernard M. Bass, Edward E. Lawler III, William H. Starbuck Robert R.
Blake, Paul R. Lawrence, George A. Steiner Elwood S. Buffa, Edmund
Philip Learned, George Strauss Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Harry
Levinson, Eric L. Trist Larry L. Cummings, Edwin A. Locke, Stanley C.
Vance Keith Davis, Dalton E. McFarland, Victor H. Vroom Fred E.
Fiedler, John B. Miner, Karl E. Weick Jay W. Forrester, Henry
Mintzberg, William Foote Whyte Robert T. Golembiewski, William H.
Newman, James C. Worthy Charles Perrow
Kathryn M. Bartol, Arthur G. Bedeian, John Child
Janice M. Beyer, C. West Churchman, George B. Graen
Geert Hofstede, David J. Hickson, Donald C. Hambrick
John M. Ivancevich, Thomas A. Mahoney, Michael A. Hitt
Fred Luthans, Andrew M. Pettigrew, James G. Hunt
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Karlene H. Roberts, Thomas A. Kochan
Derek S. Pugh, Wickham Skinner, Richard T. Mowday
John W. Slocum Jr, Greg R. Oldham
At 10:10 AM 1/12/2002 -0500, Charles Wankel wrote:
>Mg-Ed-Dv-ers,
> I have just received the TOC of the below intriguing book. I
>invite Arthur Bedeian and any of the other authors including John Child
>(who's online working papers are at:
>http://bss2.bham.ac.uk/business/page958.htm ), Don Hambrick, George
>Graen, Tom Kochan, Greg Oldham, J. Hunt, and my favorite Rick Mowday to
>provide us with further information about what this is all about and
>why we will want to read it. Charles Wankel
>Mg-Ed-Dv List Director
>
wankelc@stjohns.edu
>
>******************
>
>Series: Management Laureates
>Title: Management Laureates
>Subtitle: A Collection of Autobiographical Essays
>
>
>Edited by:A.G. Bedeian, Department of Management, Louisiana State
>University,
> Baton Rouge, LA 70803-6312, USA
>
>
>Imprint: JAI
>
>Prices: 0-7623-0487-1 Hardbound NLG 175.00 Publication: April 2002
> 0-7623-0487-1 Hardbound USD 86.00 Publication: April 2002
>
>
>Website:
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0-7623-0487-1
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>
>Contents:
>Preface
> (A.G. Bedeian).
>Mix context and choice, and add a large dose of serendipity
> (J. Child). 'It's all about LMXs, stupid': collect high-quality data,
>follow it, trust LMXs and always seek serendipity (G.B. Graen).
>Strategist without a plan: an academic life considered (D.C.
>Hambrick). Riding into the sunset on a thoroughbred (M.A. Hitt). Born
>to be an
>editor: tales of a right brained, defrocked engineer (J.G. Hunt).
>Celebrating work: a job unfinished (T.A. Kochan). Finding myself in
the
>right place at the right time, but not always (R.T Mowday). Stumbling
>into organizational behavior (G.R Oldham). Appendix. Index.
>
>
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