BOOK REPORT

Book Report: Post-Capitalist Society



Book Report: Post-Capitalist Society

Introduction

The paper discusses the Book review by Peter Drucker named “Post-Capitalist Society”. The book discusses the management practices and its impact on the social, political, and economic factors. It describes the effect of post capitalism in light of the organizational behavior.

The world is undergoing a radical transformation of society. It is still risky to describe what will be the post-capitalist world (Drucker, 2001). However, it is possible to define the new issues that will arise and the great debates that will open. The absolutely decisive factor of production is no longer capital, nor land nor labor, but it is knowledge. The economic challenge of the post-capitalist society is to ensure the productivity of knowledge and knowledge workers. As for the social challenge, it will enhance service workers. This book is the synthesis of these thoughts of Peter Drucker (John, 1999).

About The Author

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19th 1909 in Vienna, and November 11, 2005 in Claremont) was an American economist of Austrian origin. Since the 1940s he published several influential books on theory and practice of management. He is a pioneer of modern management theory and as an original and independent thinker. He could not of concepts such as "Business Process Reengineering”, “Value stream analysis "or" Six Sigma influence" (Drucker, 2001). Printers struggled in his works always for clarity and visibility. At a scientific apparatus, he largely abandoned.

Peter Ferdinand Drucker was a lawyer and Austrian author of many works recognized worldwide. Drucker made his mark in his works of his intelligence and his tireless activity. Today he is widely considered the father of management as a discipline and is still under study in the most prestigious business schools. Peter Ferdinand Drucker is the origin of most of what is established in management theory, which incorporate the various sciences and arts in the entity known (Winfried & Weber, 2009).

Peter F. Drucker studied in Vienna as the son of an upper middle class Jewish family, grew up printers in the 1920s at the University of Hamburg, and then went to Frankfurt, where he studied law and history and editor of International Relations and Economics at the Frankfurter General-Anzeiger was. He received his doctorate in Frankfurt. Carl Schmitt he offered to look after his habilitation thesis, of which only a section on Friedrich Julius Stahl was completed.

In 1933 he immigrated to England after one of his works had been burned by the Nazis, where he worked in London, including the Financial Times worked. In 1937 he moved to the U.S. and became professor of philosophy and politics at Bennington College in Bennington (Vermont) (Drucker, 2001). His 1939 book The End of Economic Man appeared, in which he tried, the phenomenon of fascism with an existentialist approach to explain. In 1943 he became a U.S. citizen. In 1945 he wrote one of his classic works in Bennington, Concept of the Corporation. Peter Drucker moved in 1950 to the New York University and worked in the years to ...