Peter Drucker is arguably the world's most influential management writer, but his contributions as a social theorist and philosopher are also notable. This book presents Drucker as a key thinker…

A unique, indispensable resource for both student and scholar, this collection gathers together key material to enable readers to explore the impact of Drucker’s ideas.

Managing in the Next Society is a collection of Peter Drucker’s most strikingly prescient articles. Salient and incisive as ever, Drucker ranges widely over the most critical issues facing business…

Peter Drucker studies how modern-day managers, whether in business or public service, can perform effectively. He takes an international view, exploring management problems in Great Britain, Western Europe, Japan, and…

The closing decades of the twentieth century have been characterized as a period of disruption and discontinuity in which the structure and meaning of economy, polity, and society have been…

Deals with ‘what, when and why’; with policies and decisions; opportunities and risks, structures and strategies; staffing, compensation and rewards. In addition to managers in various types of business, this…

The basic economic resource - ‘the means of production’, to use the economist’s term - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor ‘labour’. it is and will be knowledge…

The book studies and analyses General Motors as a large social institution involved in business activities. It describes what management is, how managers are selected, how they act, and how…