List of Management Theories

This is a list of academic management theories which I find worth mentioning.
(work in progress)


Strategy

• Porter 5 Forces 
• BCG Matrix 
• Cost vs. Value Leadership 
• Resource-based view of the firm 
• Dynamic Capabilities 
• Strategic Ambiguity vs. Strategic Clarity 
• Strategic Renewal 
• Coopetition Theory

Management Theories 

• Scientific Management - Frederick Taylor 
• Adminstrative Management Theory - H. Fayol 
• Burocratic Management - Max Weber 
• Behavioural Theory of Management - Elton Mayo 
• Chaos Theory 
• Systems Management 
• Evolutionary Theory 
• Stakeholder Management 
• Contingency Theory 
• Principal Agent Theory 
• The Concept of Coopetition 
• Knowledge Management - Nonaka 
• Shareholder Value Management 

Organizational Behavior 

• Missionary Organization 
• Theory Z Organization 
• Holographic vs. Ideographic Organizations

Motivation 

• Maslow 
• Mintzberg 

Innovation / Business Model 

• Creative Destruction - Schumpeter 
• Disruptive Innovation - Christensen 
• BMI Canvas 
• Explorative vs. Exploitative Innovation 
• Pretotyping

Product Development / Operations 

• SCRUM and Agile Development/Agile Manifesto 
• Kanban 
• Lean Management 
• Complexity Management 

Leadership 

• Transactional vs. Transformational Leadership 
• Efficiency vs. Effectiveness - Drucker 
• Upper Echelons Theory 

Management & Sociology 

• Social Network Theory - Granovetter 
• Network Effects 

Group Dynamics 

• Irrational Exuberance 
• Nash Equilibrium 

Group Psychology

• Social Exchange Theory 
• Social Interdependence Theory 
• Social Identity Theory - Tajfel/Turner 
• Social Comparison Theory - Festinger 
• Competition & Collaboration - Morton Deutsch 
• Group Think