Chester Barnard

Chester I. Barnard ( Chester Irving Barnard, born November 7, 1886 in Malden, Massachusetts, † June 7, 1961 in New York City ) was an American business executive, sociological management theorist who studied the nature of the business organization and president of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Although he himself was not academics, was his first book, Functions of the Executive (1938 ) quickly became the standard reference work for university study in the professional organization sociology and theory.

Importance

The theoretically interested practitioners Barnard examined for the first time how a system that consists of several actors coordinated. His thoughts later found under Herbert A. Simon input into the organization theory and have since continued.

He published only two books on organizational theory and management, in the tradition are but systems theory and decision theory research organization is of great importance, and was an important representative of the incentive contribution theory.

Biography

Growing up in Massachusetts, he had to finance his own almost livelihood. His studies at Harvard College, he broke off prematurely and entered at the age of 23 years at AT & T for a job at. He remained the company until his retirement faithful, reaching 1927-1948 the position of president of New Jersey Bell Telephone. So he was not a professor or scientist, but conducted his research as a hobby.

Publications

• The Functions of the Executive. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass. ) 1938 The management of large organizations. Girardet, Essen 1970

• Organization and management. Selected essays. Poeschel, Stuttgart 1969

• Manager
• Carriers of the Medal for Merit
• Americans
• Born in 1886
• Died in 1961
• Man