About Prof. Dr. James A.F. Stoner

Diamond Jubilee Festivities that mark the glorified celebration of 60 years is being honoured by the presence of Dr. James A.F.Stoner, Professor of Management Systems in Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business. He joined Fordham in 1975 and holds the “James A.F. Stoner Chair in Global Quality Leadership” established in his honour in 2002.

As the theme for DJF is ‘Sustainabilty’ it is a prestige to have Dr. Stoner with us who specializes in the research of Leading and Managing Global Sustainability; Designing and Creating For-Profit Enterprises that Contribute to Global Sustainability Management, Spirituality, and Organizational Excellence Creating Excellent Teams Ontological Inquiry, Excellence, and Personal and Organizational Transformation. He is a prolific author with many refereed papers. His three most recent publications are Fundamentals of Financial Managing (co-authored with Dr. Frank Werner), Modern Financial Managing (also co-authored with Dr. Frank Werner), and La Gerencia Dominicana (co-authored with Dr. Charles Wankel).

He received the Best Paper-Management Education, Academy of Management in 1991. His experience includes that of Project Development Officer, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of Tanganyika (now Tanzania), 1961-63 and Consultant to Arthur D. Little, Bell Labs, Bergen Brunswig Corporation, and Juran Institute, 1992-94.Professor Stoner has accumulated many academic laurels. He was named a profesor honorario by the Universidad Catolica Santo Domingo, a distinque profesor by the Asosiación Dominica de Profesionales en Administración, and an honorific visiting professor at the Universidad de Ricardo Palma in Lima, Peru. Stoner is presently a professor at Fordham University. He is an author and co-author of a number of books and journal articles, including; Management, six editions, and Introduction to Business, Scott Foresman; and World-class Managing-Two Pages at a Time (co-author Freeload Press 2010). He is a member of the Academy of Management and past chair of the Management Education and Devilment Division, the American Society for Quality; the Academy of Business Education and the Organizational Behaviour Teaching Society, the last of which he is a former board member.

In addition to his responsibilities at Fordham, Dr. Stoner advises several major companies on the movement toward quality management and teaches in executive seminars on quality and management. He has taught in executive programs in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

At Fordham, he is a past recipient of the Gladys and Henry Crown Award for Faculty Excellence at the graduate level. He also earned a citation from the Academy of Management for best paper in management education.

His book on Management continues its strong research orientation and solid theoretical underpinnings. The general theme of the 6/E is dynamic engagement--a broad term that captures the essence of change confronting future managers, and current thinking on what they'll need to succeed. The material presented revolves around the following themes: ethics, globalization, entrepreneurship and small businesses, cultural diversity, and quality.

 

Here at XISS, we religiously follow his book on Principles and Practices of Management which has provided us with the very basic concepts which facilitated better understanding of various management issues, the various emerging trends supported by Caselets. Hence, the book has provided us with a very strong foundation towards the basic concepts of Planning, Organising, Leading, Controlling and Work Place Diversity etc.

We excitedly await his visit in our campus.

Submitted by:

Yukti Verma

Department of Human Resource Management