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Jeffrey Pfeffer

Management Theorist

Jeffrey Pfeffer (born 1946) is an American business theorist and the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He received his bachelor and master degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University and his PhD from Stanford University, began his career at the business school of the University of Illinois, and taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1973 to 1979. He has served on the boards of several human capital management companies and of the publicly traded company Sonosite, was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, and won the Richard D. Irwin award for scholarly contributions to management.

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    Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business
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    Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business
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    Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business
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a theory of the consequences of this importance was not formalized until the 1970s, with the publication of The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective (Pfeffer and Salancik 1978)
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