Journal of Management History Special issue on Honoring the life and works of Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)

摘要

Peter Ferdinand Drucker is a man about whom superlatives are easily written. The foremost management thinker of our time, he is widely acknowledged as the father of modern management (Bowman and Wittmer, 2000, p. 13). Peter Drucker would have celebrated his centenary on November 19, 2009 had he not died November u, 2005. Born into the educated elite of Vienna, his education was typically German. He studied law in Hamburg and Frankfurt and then moved to London where he worked in international banking. As the World War II progressed he migrated to the USA, settling on the east coast. After 30 years he moved to the west coast and to Claremont Graduate School, California (Wood and Wood, 2005). This was to be his academic home for the remainder of his life.