Henry Mintzberg

Henry Mintzberg

Henry Mintzberg , OC , OQ , FRSC (born September 2, 1939 in Canada ) is a Canadian professor of business administration and management .

Life

After training in mechanical engineering ( B. Eng., Industrial Engineering ) at McGill University ( Montreal ) in 1961, Mintzberg worked for Canadian National Railways (1961–1963). He studied part-time and in 1962 made another Bachelor in General Arts ( Sir George Williams University ). Mintzberg received his Master of Science in 1965 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Management. He completed his doctoral studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management and presented his doctoral thesis The Manager at Work - Determining his Activities, Roles and Programs by Structured Observation in 1968.

Mintzberg took over a professorship at McGill University and continued to teach there with interruptions. Mintzberg held professorships and visiting professorships at INSEAD (visiting professor, 1991–1999), the London Business School (1990–1991), the École des hautes études commerciales (Montreal, 1977–1978), Carnegie Mellon University (1973). 1974–1976 he held a visiting professorship at the University of Aix-Marseille . It was here that his most important work, Structuring of organizations: A synthesis of research, was created . Mintzberg was the first director of the joint doctoral program of the four Montreal universities (1976–1978).

Henry Mintzberg is married and has two daughters.

Work

Mintzberg has authored more than 140 articles and ten books on management and strategy. According to his own statements, his goal was to present a teachable subject “Management Policy” . While pursuing this goal, Mintzberg has written significant papers in the fields of strategy, organizational theory and general management.

His work on organizational structures ( Structuring of organizations: A synthesis of research ), together with a work by his student and colleague Danny Miller, is considered to be one of the most cited publications on the subject (see Mintzberg's configuration ). In The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning , he criticizes planning departments and methods as unsuitable because they focus on the content of strategy instead of explaining how strategy is created. The book is a standard work in strategy theory .

In addition to his work on the subject of management training, Mintzberg also publishes a criticism of the teaching system at universities, where he vehemently speaks out against the typical full-time MBA programs ( Managers Not MBAs ). Just as openly, he speaks out against certain business practices of airlines and airports ( Why I hate flying ).

Awards

Mintzberg was given frequent and high honors. For his services to education in Canada, he was named Officer of the Order of Canada in 1998 and Officier de l'ordre national du Québec in the same year . Mintzberg has twice won the McKinsey Award for Best Article of the Year in the Harvard Business Review (1975). He also has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Montreal , Concordia , Memorial , McMaster , Simon Fraser , The New School , Lund , Lancaster , Gent , Liège , Paris-Dauphine , Geneva , Lausanne , Venice and ESADE .

Works

• Managing , San Francisco (Ca) 2009 ISBN 1576753409
• Managers instead of MBAs - a critical analysis , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2005 ISBN 3-593-37681-4
• Strategy Safari - a journey through the wilderness of strategic management , Vienna [u. a.] 1999 ISBN 3-7064-0523-7
• The strategic planning - rise, fall and redefinition , Munich, Vienna 1995 ISBN 0-13-781824-6
• The Mintzberg structure - making organizations more effective , Landsberg am Lech 1992 ISBN 3-478-31470-4
• The nature of managerial work , New York NY 1973 ISBN 0-06-044556-4
• The manager's job: folklore and fact , Harvard Business Review July-August 1975
• The structuring of organizations , Englewood Cliffs 1979 NJ
• Organizational structure: fashionable or suitable? , Harvard Manager 4 / Issue 2 - 1982
• Patterns in Strategy Formation , Management Science, 1978 Vol. 24, pp. 934-48.
• The Structuring of Organizations 1979, Prentice Hall, Hemel Hempstead / Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
• Crafting Strategy 1987; Harvard Business Review, July-August, pp. 65-75
• The design school: reconsidering the basic premises of strategic management , IEEE Engineering Management Review, 1990 Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 85-112
• The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning , 1994 Prentice-Hall, Hemel Hempstead

Works published with others:

• Mintzberg, H. and McHugh A. 1985 Strategy Formation in Adhocracy , Administrative Science Quarterly.
• Mintzberg, H. Otis, S. Shamsie, J. and Waters JA 1986, Strategy of design: a study of "architects in co-partnership" , in Grant J. (ed.) Strategic Management Frontiers, JAI Press, Greenwich, CT .
• Mintzberg H. and Quinn, JB 1991; The Strategy Process , Prentice Hall, Hemel Hempstead
• Mintzberg H., Quinn, JB and Ghoshal, S., 1995; The Strategy Process , Prentice-Hall, Hemel Hempstead
• Mintzberg H., Waters JA 1982; Tracking strategy in an entrepreneurial firm , Academy of Management Journal, pp 465-99
• Mintzberg H., Waters JA 1984; Researching the formation of strategies: the history of the Canadian Lady, 1939-1976 in Lamb, R. (ed.) Competitive Strategic Management, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
• Mintzberg H., Waters JA 1985; Of strategies, deliberate and emergent , Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 6, pp. 257-272
• Mintzberg H., Ahlstrand B., Lampel J. 1999, Strategy Safari: a guided tour through the wilds of strategic management , The Freee Press, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc., New York

Web links

• http://www.henrymintzberg.com/
• Literature by and about Henry Mintzberg in the catalog of the German National Library

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Curriculum Vitae ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ ^{A b c} Henry Mintzberg (1993) The Illusive Strategy…. 25 Years Later , published in Arthur Bedeian Management Laureates: A Colloction of Autobiographical Essays , JAI Press, Volume I, Online-Version (English) ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Susan Segal-Horn (2000) Introduction to Part IV , in Susan Segal-Horn (2000) The Strategy Reader ; Blackwell Publishers, Malden, Massachusetts and The Open University Milton Keynes, UK, pp. 234 ff.