Bedeian and Wren (2001) placed The Principles of Scientific Management (Taylor, 1911)
as “the most influential book on management ever published” (p. 222). A total of 134
academicians within the “Academy of Management” also ranked the author, Frederick
W. Taylor[1], in top position as an “outstanding individual who had contributed the
most to American business and management thought and practice in the past 200
years” (Wren and Hay, 1977, p. 471). The latter study was replicated and extended by
Joyce and Breland (2010) who rediscovered that “Frederick Taylor reigned supreme”
(p. 432).