Design in Management: Concepts & Methods of Practice

Design, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation

  1. Boland, Richard J. & Fred Collopy, eds. Managing as Designing.
  2. Buchanan, Richard & Victor Margolin, eds. Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies.
  3. Diller, Steve, Nathan Shedroff, & Darrel Rhea. Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses  Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences.
  4. Drucker, Peter F. Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
  5. Martin, Roger, The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive  Advantage.
  6. Pine, B. Joseph & James H. Gilmore, The Experience Economy: Work is Theater & Every  Business a Stage.
  7. Schon, Donald A., The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action.
  8. Verganti, Roberto, Design-Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean.


Management & Organization Theory

  1. Drucker, Peter F. The Practice of Management.
  2. ________. Concept of the Corporation.
  3. George, Claude S. The History of Management Thought. [Excellent brief history
  4. March, James & Herbert Simon. Organizations.
  5. Senge, Peter M., The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization.
  6. Wren, Daniel A. The History of Management Thought. [More detailed and sophissticated  than Claude S. George’s history, but also more academic and theoretic in emphasis, minimizing some practically important figures.]

Economics
  1. Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.

Visualization
  1. Buxton, Bill. Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design.
  2. Harris, Robert L. Information Graphics: Visual Tools for Analyzing, Managing, and  Communicating: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference.
  3. Horn, Robert E. Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century.
  4. Hyerle, David. Visual Tools for Constructing Knowledge. [Useful overview of tools]
  5. Novak, Joseph D. & D. Bob Gowin. Learning How to Learn. [Highly recommended]

General Themes

  1. Whitbeck, Caroline. Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research.