nagement, Drucker's other major works include the following books and articles:
Technology, Management, and Society (1958)
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
Innovation and Entrepreneurship (1985)
Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999)
"Integration of People and Planning," Harvard Business Review (1955)
"The Technological Revolution," Technology and Culture (1961)
"The Competitive World," Harvard Business Review (1962)
"Management's New Role," Harvard Business Review (1969)
"Schumpeter and Keynes," Forbes (1983)
"Business Innovation," Current (1984)
"The Coming of the New Organization," Harvard Business Review (1988)
"The New Society of Organizations," Harvard Business Review (1992)
"Management is not A Technique," Across the Board (1996)
The theoretical themes that tend to flow through all of Drucker's works are the need to participate, shared governance in organizations, the crucial value of leadership, and the critical role of innovation. One or more of these themes appears in all of his works.
Major Contributions to Organizational Management
The review of Drucker's major contribution to management covers participative management, leadership, economic innovation, and the information age. Discussions of each of these issues follow in this section.
Peter Drucker work in the area of participative management likely is his greatest professional achievement. The concept of participative management appeared for the first time at the General Motors Corporation before the Second World War, when that firm was under the leadership of Alfred Sloan. The participative management style did not receive wide attention, however, until the 1950s, when Peter Drucker (1954) introduced the term management-by-objectives. One characteristic of all forms of participative management is that organizational superiors consult with their subordinates concerning the development o...