Richard L. Daft (born 1941) is an American organizational theorist and the
Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Professor of Management at the
Owen Graduate School of Management
The Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management is the graduate business school of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1969, Owen awards six degrees: a standard 2-year Master of Business Administr ...
,
Vanderbilt University
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.
Biography
Daft holds a
B.S.
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from the
University of Nebraska
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, an
M.B.A.
A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as account ...
from the
University of Chicago
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, and a
Ph.D.
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from the University of Chicago.
He has made fundamental contributions to the study of
organization behavior
Organizational behavior (OB) or organisational behaviour is the: "study of human behavior in organizational settings, the interface between human behavior and the organization, and the organization itself".Moorhead, G., & Griffin, R. W. (1995) ...
and
organization design
Organizational architecture has two very different meanings. In one sense it literally refers to the organization's built environment and in another sense it refers to architecture metaphorically, as a structure which fleshes out the organizatio ...
, and authored several books in these areas. He co-developed
media richness theory
Media richness theory, sometimes referred to as information richness theory or MRT, is a framework used to describe a communication medium's ability to reproduce the information sent over it. It was introduced by Richard L. Daft and Robert H. Leng ...
, with Robert H. Lengel, and is one of the most widely cited scholars in the field of management.
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He developed and managed the Center for Change Leadership at the Owen Graduate School of Management
The Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management is the graduate business school of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1969, Owen awards six degrees: a standard 2-year Master of Business Administr ...
, Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...
, where he also served as Associate Dean for Academic Programs. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management
The Academy of Management is a professional association for scholars of management and organizations that was established in 1936. It publishes several academic journals, organizes conferences, and provides others forums for management professors ...
.
Bibliography
*''Leadership'' (2011)
*''Leadership and Management'' (2010)
*''The Executive and the elephant'' (2010)
*''Management: The New Workplace'' (2009)
*''Principles of Management'' (2009)
*''Understanding the Theory and Design of Organizations'' (2007)
*''The Leadership Experience'' (2006)
*''Organizational Behaviors'' (2001)
*''Talking about Organization'' (2000)
*''Fusion Leadership'' (1998)
*Where Are the Theories for the "New" Organizational Forms? An Editorial Essay (1993)
*''Management'' (1988), The Dryden Press
References
External links
Richard L. Daft's web site
at Vanderbilt University
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1941 births
Living people
University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni
American sociologists
Vanderbilt University faculty
University of Chicago Booth School of Business alumni