Russell L. Ackoff - Publications

Publications

Ackoff has authored or co-authored 35 books and published over 150 articles in a variety of journals. Books:

• 1946, Psychologistics, with C. West Churchman.
• 1947, Measurement of Consumer Interest, with C. W. Churchman and M. Wax (ed.).
• 1950, Methods of Inquiry: an introduction to philosophy and scientific method, with C. W. Churchman. Educational Publishers: St. Louis.
• 1953, The Design of Social Research.
• 1957, Introduction to Operations Research, with C. W. Churchman and E. L. Arnoff. John Wiley & Sons: New York.
• 1961, Progress in Operations Research, I. Wiley: New York.
• 1962, Scientific Method: optimizing applied research decisions, Wiley: New York.
• 1963, A Manager's Guide to Operations Research, with P. Rivett. Wiley: New York.
• 1968, Fundamentals of Operations Research, with M. Sasieni. John Wiley & Sons: New York.
• 1970, A Concept of Corporate Planning. Wiley-Interscience: New York.
• 1972, On Purposeful Systems: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Individual and Social Behavior as a System of Purposeful Events, with Frederick Edmund Emery, Aldine-Atherton: Chicago.
• 1974, Redesigning the Future: A Systems Approach to Societal Problems. John Wiley & Sons: New York.
• 1974, Systems and Management Annual, (ed.).
• 1976, The SCATT Report, with T. A. Cowan, Peter Davis (Ed.).
• 1976, Some Observations and Reflections on Mexican Development.
• 1978, The Art of Problem Solving: accompanied by Ackoff's Fables. John Wiley & Sons: New York. Illustrations by Karen B. Ackoff.
• 1981, Creating the Corporate Future: plan or be planned for. John Wiley & Sons: New York.
• 1984, A Guide to Controlling Your Corporation's Future, with E.V. Finnel and J. Gharajedaghi.
• 1984, Revitalizing Western Economies, with P. Broholm and R. Snow.
• 1986, Management in Small Doses. John Wiley & Sons: New York.
• 1991, Ackoff's Fables: Irreverent Reflections on Business and Bureaucracy. John Wiley & Sons: New York.
• 1994, The Democratic Corporation: a radical prescription for recreating corporate America and rediscovering success. Oxford Univ. Press: New York.
• 1998, Exploring Personality: an intellectual odyssey. CQM: Cambridge, MA.
• 1999, Ackoff's Best: his classic writings on management. John Wiley & Sons: New York.
• 1999, Re-Creating the Corporation: a design of organizations for the 21st century. Oxford Univ. Press: New York.
• 2000, "A Theory of a System for Educators and Managers", with W. Edwards Deming
• 2003, Redesigning Society, with Sheldon Rovin. Stanford Univ. Press: Stanford, Calif.
• 2006, Idealized Design: How to Dissolve Tomorrow's Crisis Today, with Jason Magidson and Herbert J. Addison. Wharton School Publishing. Upper Saddle River, NJ.
• 2006, A Little Book of f-Laws, with Herbert J. Addison and Sally Bibb.
• 2007, Management f-Laws, with Herbert J. Addison and Sally Bibb.
• 2008, Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track (pdf) with Daniel Greenberg.
• 2010, Memories.
• 2010, Differences that Make a Difference.
• 2012, Ackoff's F/Laws: The Cake.