Do we need innovation in our management thought?

Abstract

Erik Johnsen became Master of Economics (Arhus University) in 1955. He founded the Management Science Research Group at the Copenhagen School of Economics in 1969 and \Jecame the head of the Institute of Business Administration and Professor of Marketing and Managerial Economics at the Abo School of Economics, Abo Swedish University. He was appointed a Professor of Managerial Economics, Operations Research and Management Science at the Copenhagen School of Economics in 1969. Prof. Johnsen is a co-founder of the Danish Society of Operations Research and served as Secretary from 1962 till 1965 and President from 1969 till 1971. He became Managing Editor of the Danish Journal of Economics and Business Administration in 1968. He became a member of the Danish Academy for Technical Sciences in 1970 and The Society of Sciences in Lund, Sweden in 1973. He became Doctor of Honour at the Swedish University Abo in 1977 and a Honorary Member of the Association of Danish Business Economists in 1979. Among his books are: Introduction to Operations Research (1962, 2nd ed . 1964, in Danish); Studies in Multiobjective Decision Models (dissertation Lund, 1968 , in English) ; Goal-Driented Management (1973, in Danish and Swedish); The Theory of Management (1975 , in Danish); Introduction to Operations Research (with Ove Hedegaard and Per Ellervik, 1976, in Danish); Elements of Management Science (1976. in Danish); Interactive Change Processes (with Lasse Nilson, 1979, in Danish); Managerial Economics: Development and Impact on Society (Editor, 1979, in Danish); further he wrote numerous articles on management, operations research, marketing, managerial economics and organization in professional journals.