ABSTRACT
The post-World War II period saw an expansion for book publishing, the business press, and academic journals. In terms of book publishing particularly, McGraw-Hill, Prentice-Hall, and Wiley increased their lists of management publications. James D. Thompson's Organizations in Action stands out. It has become a classic, not only for organizational scholars in the narrow sense, but also for management studies as a whole. For Wiley with its science and engineering orientation it was quite natural though apparently not very lucrative to publish titles within operations research, as this area became an important part of management studies and practice during the 1950s and 1960s. Among the other publishers Prentice-Hall appears as the significant runner-up with almost as many titles as McGraw-Hill in the post-World War II period. At the end of the interwar period nine of the titles on the FT45 list had been founded.
