Overview

Peter Drucker is best known, especially in the United States, as a writer on management, but, in fact, management was neither his first nor has it been his foremost concern. Most of his books on management deal less with strategy and results than with the nature of the corporation as human effort and social institution. From the time of his intellectual apprenticeship to the present, Drucker's primary subject has been community, in which the individual has status, and society in which the individual has function. The selections brought together in A Functioning Society are drawn both from his books and previously uncollected writings. Together, they reflect the full range of Drucker's thought and constitute an ideal introduction to his work.

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Author:   Peter F. Drucker
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Transaction Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780765801593

ISBN 10:   0765801590
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   30 November 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Community, Society, Polity Part 1: Foundations 1. From Rousseau to Hitler 2. The Conservative Counter-Revolution of 1776 3. A Conservative Approach Part 2: The Rise of Totalitarianism 4. The Return to Demons 5. The Failure of Marxism Part 3: The Sickness of Government 6. From Nation State to Megastate 7. The Sickness of Government 8. No More Salvation by Society Part 4: The New Pluralism 9. The New Pluralism 10. Towards a Theory of Organizations 11. The Society of Organizations Part 5: The Corporation as a Social Institution 12. The Governance of Corporations 13. The Corporation as a Social Institution 14. The Corporation as a Political Institution Part 6: The Knowledge Society 15. The New Worldview 16. From Capitalism to the Knowledge Society 17. The Productivity of the Knowledge Worker 18. From Information to Communication Part 7: The Next Society 19. The Next Society

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Since coming to America more than a half-century ago, Peter Drucker has been high among our creative thinkers, producing a whole bookshelf on management and society, the past and the future. Here is an opportunity to read a cogent selection of his works, picked by the man himself, that shows not only individual insights but an integrated and engaging Weltanschauung. --Robert L. Bartley, Wall Street Journal

-Since coming to America more than a half-century ago, Peter Drucker has been high among our creative thinkers, producing a whole bookshelf on management and society, the past and the future. Here is an opportunity to read a cogent selection of his works, picked by the man himself, that shows not only individual insights but an integrated and engaging Weltanschauung.- --Robert L. Bartley, Wall Street Journal Since coming to America more than a half-century ago, Peter Drucker has been high among our creative thinkers, producing a whole bookshelf on management and society, the past and the future. Here is an opportunity to read a cogent selection of his works, picked by the man himself, that shows not only individual insights but an integrated and engaging Weltanschauung. --Robert L. Bartley, Wall Street Journal Since coming to America more than a half-century ago, Peter Drucker has been high among our creative thinkers, producing a whole bookshelf on management and society, the past and the future. Here is an opportunity to read a cogent selection of his works, picked by the man himself, that shows not only individual insights but an integrated and engaging Weltanschauung. --Robert L. Bartley, Wall Street Journal Since coming to America more than a half-century ago, Peter Drucker has been high among our creative thinkers, producing a whole bookshelf on management and society, the past and the future. Here is an opportunity to read a cogent selection of his works, picked by the man himself, that shows not only individual insights but an integrated and engaging Weltanschauung. --Robert L. Bartley, Wall Street Journal

<p> Since coming to America more than a half-century ago, Peter Drucker has been high among our creative thinkers, producing a whole bookshelf on management and society, the past and the future. Here is an opportunity to read a cogent selection of his works, picked by the man himself, that shows not only individual insights but an integrated and engaging Weltanschauung. <p> --Robert L. Bartley, Wall Street Journal

Since coming to America more than a half-century ago, Peter Drucker has been high among our creative thinkers, producing a whole bookshelf on management and society, the past and the future. Here is an opportunity to read a cogent selection of his works, picked by the man himself, that shows not only individual insights but an integrated and engaging Weltanschauung. </p> --Robert L. Bartley, <i>Wall Street Journal</i></p>

-Since coming to America more than a half-century ago, Peter Drucker has been high among our creative thinkers, producing a whole bookshelf on management and society, the past and the future. Here is an opportunity to read a cogent selection of his works, picked by the man himself, that shows not only individual insights but an integrated and engaging Weltanschauung.- --Robert L. Bartley, Wall Street Journal Since coming to America more than a half-century ago, Peter Drucker has been high among our creative thinkers, producing a whole bookshelf on management and society, the past and the future. Here is an opportunity to read a cogent selection of his works, picked by the man himself, that shows not only individual insights but an integrated and engaging Weltanschauung. --Robert L. Bartley, Wall Street Journal Since coming to America more than a half-century ago, Peter Drucker has been high among our creative thinkers, producing a whole bookshelf on management and society, the past and the future. Here is an opportunity to read a cogent selection of his works, picked by the man himself, that shows not only individual insights but an integrated and engaging Weltanschauung. --Robert L. Bartley, Wall Street Journal Since coming to America more than a half-century ago, Peter Drucker has been high among our creative thinkers, producing a whole bookshelf on management and society, the past and the future. Here is an opportunity to read a cogent selection of his works, picked by the man himself, that shows not only individual insights but an integrated and engaging Weltanschauung. --Robert L. Bartley, Wall Street Journal

Author Information

Peter F. Drucker has been Clarke Professor of Social Sciences and Management at Claremont Graduate School in California since 1972. He is the author of The Ecological vision, The Concept of the Corporation, The New Society, The Future of Industrial Man, The Age of Discontinuity, The End of Economic Man, The Pension Fund Revolution, Landmarks of Tomorrow, and Adventures of a Bystander, all available from Transaction.

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