Reading List Books
Early Influences
Philosophical, Anthropological, Architectural
- Claude Levi Strauss – The Savage Mind. Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd 1966 [link]
More recently published & English translation titled, Wild Thought, University of
Chicago Press 2021 [link] - Michael Polanyi – The Tacit Dimension. University of Chicago Press 1966 [link ext]
- Gilbert Ryle – The Concept of Mind first published 1949 [link ext]
- Theodore Zeldin – An Intimate History of Humanity. Vintage 1998 [link ext]
- Michel Foucault – The Order of Things. Random House 1970 [link]
- Andrew Ortony – Metaphor and Thought. Cambridge University Press 1979 [link ext]
- Martin Heidegger – Poetry, Language, Thought. Harper & Row 1971 [link ext]
- Charles Moore & Gerald Allen – Dimensions. Architectural Record 1976 [link ext]
Management History &Theory
- Peter Drucker – Technology, Management & Society. Harper & Row 1958 [link ext]
- Herbert Simon – Administrative Behaviour. The Free Press 1945 [link]
- Pauline Graham – Dynamic Managing, The Follett Way British Institute of Management 1987 [link ext]
- Alfred D. Chandler – Strategy and Structure. The MIT Press 1969 [link ext]
- Gareth Morgan – Images of Organization. Sage Publications 1986 [link ext]
- Henry Mintzberg – Structure in Fives. Prentice Hall 1983 [link ext]
Later Influences
Neuroscience, Behavioural Economics, Technology, Quantum Mechanics, Management and Storytelling.
- W. Brian Arthur – The Nature of Technology. Allen Lane 2009 [link]
- Richard Sennett – The Craftsman. Allen Lane 2008 [link ext]
- Peter Gould & Ronald White – Mental Maps Penguin Books 1974 [link ext]
- Antonio Demasio – Descartes Error Vintage Books 1994 Self Comes to Mind William
Heinemann 2010 [link] - Daniel Kahneman – Thinking,fast and slow. Allen Lane 2011 [link]
- Jim Al Kalili – Life on the Edge. Bantam Press 2014 [link ext]
- Ian McGilchrist – The Master and His Emissary. University Press 2009 [link ext]
- Peter Drucker – Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Harper & Row 1968 [link]
- Dorothy Leonard Barton – Wellsprings of Knowledge Harvard Business School Press 1995 [link ext]
- Dan Ariely – Predictably Irrational Harper Collins 2008 [link ext]
- Philip Pullman – Daemon Voices. David Fickling Books 2017 [link ext]
Essays by Angela Dumas
Academic Papers by Angela Dumas
- Totemics – new metaphor techniques to manage knowledge from discovery to storage and retrieval – (with Andrew Fentem), Technovation, Vol. 18 Nos 8/9, Summer 1998
- Using metaphors in new brand design – Journal of Marketing Management, 1997, 13 (with Gil McWilliam)
- From icon to beacon – the new British Design Council and the global economy, Design Management Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3, Summer 1996
- Building totems – metaphor-making in product development, Design Management Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, Winter 1994
- Reflections on design and the third way – in The Mary Parker Follett Reader, Harvard Business School Press
- The new product trajectory – the Japanese context of product innovation, (with Kiyonori Sakakibara and Shinji Watanabe), unpublished working paper, 1994
- Managing form, function and fit of design – Design Management Journal, Vol. 2, No. 13, Summer 1991 (with Henry Mintzberg)
- Managing design, designing management – Design Management Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall 1989 (with Henry Mintzberg)
- Why design is difficult to manage – European Management Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1., March 1989 (with Allan Whitfield)
- Silent design – Design Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3, July 1987 (with Peter Gorb)