Richard L. Daft

Richard L. Daft is the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Professor of Management at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University.^[1] He has made fundamental contributions to the study of organization behavior and organization design, and authored several books in these areas.^[2] Daft co-developed media richness theory, with Robert H. Lengel, and is one of the most widely cited scholars in the field of management.^[3]

Daft holds a B.S. from the University of Nebraska, an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He developed and managed the Center for Change Leadership at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, where he also served as Associate Dean for Academic Programs. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management.

Publications

Daft's many scholarly books include

• Leadership (in press, 2011)
• Leadership and Management (2010)
• The Executive and the elephant (2010)
• Management: The New Workplace (2009)
• Principlews 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)

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