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Lyndall F. Urwick
1930 Autochrome by Georges Chevalier
Born(1891-03-03)March 3, 1891
DiedDecember 5, 1983(1983-12-05) (aged 92)
Occupation(s)Author, intellectual, and management consultant

Lyndall Fownes Urwick MC (3 March 1891 – 5 December 1983) was a British management consultant and business thinker. He is recognised for integrating the ideas of earlier theorists like Henri Fayol into a comprehensive theory of management administration.[1][2] He wrote an influential book called The Elements of Business Administration, published in 1943.[3] With Luther Gulick, he founded the academic journal Administrative Science Quarterly.[4]

  1. ^ John Sheldrake (2003) Management Theory. p. 92
  2. ^ Derek Salman Pugh, David John Hickson (2007) Great Writers on Organizations. p. 148
  3. ^ March, James G., and Herbert Alexander Simon. Organizations. (1958).
  4. ^ James Everett Katz (2011) Mobile Communication: Dimensions of Social Policy. p. 40

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