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Title: Peter F. Drucker Papers, 1909-2005
Identifier/Call Number: DA.1909
Contributing Institution:
The Drucker Institute
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
139.2 Linear feet
Date: 1909-2005
Books published in approx. 41 languages: English, German, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified & Complex), Spanish, Korean, Hebrew, Azeri, Thai, Catalan, Slovenian, Romanian,
Finnish, French, Serbo-Croatian, Arabic, Dutch, Pak-Bengali, Portuguese, Czech, Danish, Swedish, Burmese, Norwegian, Vietnamese,
Malagasy, Polish, Italian, Indonesian, Malay, Russian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Turkish, Polish, Armenian, Ukrainian, Castilian,
Kazakh, Lithuanian.
Abstract: Peter F. Drucker was a writer, professor, management consultant and self-described “social ecologist,” who explored the way
human beings organize themselves and interact much the way an ecologist would observe and analyze the biological world. Hailed
by BusinessWeek as “the man who invented management,” Drucker directly influenced a huge number of leaders from a wide range
of organizations across all sectors of society. Among the many: General Electric, IBM, Intel, Procter & Gamble, Girl Scouts
of the USA, The Salvation Army, Red Cross, United Farm Workers and several presidential administrations. Drucker’s 39 books,
along with his countless scholarly and popular articles, predicted many of the major developments of the late 20th century,
including privatization and decentralization, the rise of Japan to economic world power, the decisive importance of marketing
and innovation, and the emergence of the information society with its necessity of lifelong learning. In the late 1950s, Drucker
coined the term “knowledge worker,” and he spent the rest of his life examining an age in which an unprecedented number of
people use their brains more than their backs. Throughout his work, Drucker called for a healthy balance—between short-term
needs and long-term sustainability; between profitability and other obligations; between the specific mission of individual
organizations and the common good; between freedom and responsibility. Drucker’s first major work, The End of Economic Man,
was published in 1939. After reading it, Winston Churchill described Drucker as “one of those writers to whom almost anything
can be forgiven because he not only has a mind of his own, but has the gift of starting other minds along a stimulating line
of thought.” Driven by an insatiable curiosity about the world around him—and a deep desire to make that world a better place—Drucker
continued to write long after most others would have put away their pens. The result was a ceaseless procession of landmarks
and classics: Concept of the Corporation in 1946, The Practice of Management in 1954, The Effective Executive in 1967, Management:
Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices in 1973, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 1985, Post-Capitalist Society in 1993, Management
Challenges for the 21st Century in 1999. Drucker, who had taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Bennington College, and New York
University, spent the last 30-plus years of his career on the faculty at Claremont Graduate University. In 2002, he received
the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. He died in November 2005, just shy of his 96th birthday.
creator:
Drucker, Peter, Dr. , 1909-2005
[Identification of item], Peter F. Drucker Personal Papers (DA1909) The Drucker Institute, Claremont Graduate University,
Claremont, California.
The End of Economic Man (1939)
The Future of Industrial Man (1942)
Concept of the Corporation (1946)
The New Society (1950)
The Practice of Management (1954)
America’s Next Twenty Years (1957)
Landmarks of Tomorrow (1957)
Managing for Results (1964)
The Effective Executive (1966)
The Age of Discontinuity (1968)
Technology, Management and Society (1970)
The New Markets and Other Essays (1971)
Men, Ideas and Politics (1971)
Drucker on Management (1971)
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
The Unseen Revolution (1976; reissued in 1996 under the title The Pension Fund Revolution)
People and Performance: The Best of Peter Drucker on Management (1977)
Adventures of a Bystander (1978)
Managing in Turbulent Times (1980)
Toward the Next Economics and Other Essays (1981)
The Changing World of the Executive (1982)
The Last of All Possible Worlds (1982)
The Temptation to Do Good (1984)
Innovation and Entrepreneurship (1985)
Frontiers of Management (1986)
The New Realities: in Government and Politics, in Economics and Business, in Society and World View (1989)
Managing the Nonprofit Organization: Principles and Practices (1990)
Managing for the Future (1992)
The Ecological Vision (1993)
Post-Capitalist Society (1993)
Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995)
Drucker on Asia: A Dialogue between Peter Drucker and Isao Nakauchi (1997)
Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management (1998)
Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999)
The Essential Drucker (2001)
Managing in the Next Society (2002)
A Functioning Society (2002)
The Daily Drucker (2004, with Joseph A. Maciariello)
The Five Most Important Questions (2008; posthumously released)
The Justification of International Law and the Will of the State (1932)
Friedrich Julius Stahl Conservative Political Theory & Historical Development (1933)
The Jewish Question in Germany (1936)
Power and Democracy in America (1961)
Preparing Tomorrow’s Business Leaders Today (1969)
The Rise of NEC (1991)
Song of the Brush: Japanese Painting from the Sanso Collection (1979)
An Introductory View of Management (1977)
Management Cases (1977; revised edition, 2009)
The Effective Executive In Action (2006, with Joseph A. Maciariello)
Classic Drucker (2006; content virtually identical to Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management)
Management: Revised (2008, posthumously released, with Joseph A. Maciariello)
The Drucker Lectures: Essential Lessons on Management, Society and Economy (2010, edited by Rick Wartzman)
From Peter F. Drucker [1909-2005], the Drucker Collection was received as a donation of manuscripts, notes, diaries, letters,
books, magazine articles, correspondence, pictures, awards and documents relevant to his professional and personal experiences
throughout his life.