Management Decision: Volume 48 Issue 4

From inspired teaching to effective knowledge work and back again: A report on Peter Drucker's schoolmistress and what she can teach us about the management and education of knowledge workers

The emerging knowledge societies will – besides many other dramatic changes – see a teaching revolution. This paper seeks to propose quality standards for this new type of…

Strategic transactions and managing the future: a Druckerian perspective

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of institutional innovation in managing the future. Peter Drucker has encouraged managers to develop institutional…

Drucker's theory of the business and organisations: challenging business assumptions

This paper considers Drucker's “theory of the business” as a management concept applicable to the challenging of firm performance. The paper seeks to do this by using the…

The art of managing for the future: leadership of turbulence

The paper aims to explore themes in Drucker's work which provide messages for current turbulent times. Based on a literature review of both Drucker's work and contemporary studies…

Is there a transatlantic divide?: Reviewing Peter F. Drucker's thoughts on ethics and leadership of US and European managers

Drucker has often been criticized for his pejorative interpretation of business ethics and the use of the term “casuistry”. This paper aims to show that Drucker was just the…

The challenge to rekindle China's innovative spirit

China has become an economic powerhouse in historic terms but there are a number of challenges to its continued prosperity. The aim of this paper is to more fully understand…

HKSAR government civil servants: a non‐Drucker organisation?

Peter F. Drucker (1909‐2005) was an influential modern management theorist. This paper, however, aims to challenge his diagnosis and prescriptions on the public sector for…

Intellectual capital and knowledge productivity: the Taiwan biotech industry

This purpose of this paper is to examine and test the effects of human capital, organization capital, and social capital on knowledge productivity and the interactive effects…

An exploration of factors predicting work alienation of knowledge workers

There is limited research on the work alienation of knowledge workers in management studies. This paper seeks to address this gap by exploring the extent and reasons for the…

How to create business value in the knowledge economy: Accelerating thoughts of Peter F. Drucker

The main purpose of this paper is to explore and revitalise key contributions of Peter Drucker for the understanding of how changing conditions in the economy radically alter the…

The next book Peter Drucker would have written: federalism and management as a liberal art

The political philosophy of American federalism was a critical influence on the work of Peter Drucker. Drucker drew on federalist ideas to devise ways to distribute and check…

Peter Drucker: unsolved puzzle or completed picture?