TY - BOOK AU - Gabor, Andrea TI - The capitalist philosophers : : the geniuses of modern business : their lives, times and ideas / SN - 0-8129-2820-2 PY - 2000/// CY - New York : PB - Times Books, KW - ADMINISTRACION DE EMPRESAS KW - GESTION EMPRESARIAL KW - BIOGRAFIAS N1 - 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 ER -