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Philosophers, social scientists, and institutions — grouped as people and organizations rather than individual bibliographic works.
638 thinkers
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638 thinkers
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James Reason
Safety scientist whose work on human error, organizational accidents, and resilient systems shaped modern safety thinking.
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James Reason
Safety scientist whose work on human error, organizational accidents, and resilient systems shaped modern safety thinking.
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Jamie Morgenstern
AI ethics researchers documenting dataset documentation practices and harms of opaque training data governance.
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Jamie Morgenstern
AI ethics researchers documenting dataset documentation practices and harms of opaque training data governance.
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Jan Shipps
Historian of Mormonism as new religious tradition emerging in American society.
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Jan Shipps
Historian of Mormonism as new religious tradition emerging in American society.
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Jane Addams
Settlement-house leader whose Hull-House practice treated democracy as daily neighborhood work.
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Jane Addams
Settlement-house leader whose Hull-House practice treated democracy as daily neighborhood work.
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Jane Gleeson-White
Writer on accounting history, double-entry bookkeeping, and how numbers organize economic trust.
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Jane Gleeson-White
Writer on accounting history, double-entry bookkeeping, and how numbers organize economic trust.
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Jane Jacobs
Urbanist of sidewalk life, informal order, and why healthy cities depend on eyes on the street.
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Jane Jacobs
Urbanist of sidewalk life, informal order, and why healthy cities depend on eyes on the street.
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Javier Corrales
Political scientists of Venezuelan authoritarianism, oil states, and democratic backsliding.
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Javier Corrales
Political scientists of Venezuelan authoritarianism, oil states, and democratic backsliding.
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Jeff Cox
Authors of The Goal—theory of constraints narrated through manufacturing operations management.
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Jeff Cox
Authors of The Goal—theory of constraints narrated through manufacturing operations management.
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Jeff Horwitz
Wall Street Journal reporter documenting Facebook's internal fights over engagement and divisiveness.
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Jeff Horwitz
Wall Street Journal reporter documenting Facebook's internal fights over engagement and divisiveness.
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Jeff Sutherland
Co-creator of Scrum with Ken Schwaber and a leader in spreading empirical, time-boxed product development in software organizations.
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Jeff Sutherland
Co-creator of Scrum with Ken Schwaber and a leader in spreading empirical, time-boxed product development in software organizations.
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Jeffrey Kluger
Apollo 13 commander and journalist narrating crisis teamwork and NASA operational learning.
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Jeffrey Kluger
Apollo 13 commander and journalist narrating crisis teamwork and NASA operational learning.
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Jennifer Petoff
Google SRE editor of the Site Reliability Engineering corpus on production ownership and sustainable operations.
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Jennifer Petoff
Google SRE editor of the Site Reliability Engineering corpus on production ownership and sustainable operations.
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Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
AI ethics researchers documenting dataset documentation practices and harms of opaque training data governance.
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Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
AI ethics researchers documenting dataset documentation practices and harms of opaque training data governance.
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Jerald Greenberg
Organizational psychologist who mapped organizational justice—fairness perceptions at work across time.
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Jerald Greenberg
Organizational psychologist who mapped organizational justice—fairness perceptions at work across time.
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Jerry B Harvey
Management scholar who named the Abilene paradox—groups undertaking unwanted actions to avoid conflict.
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Jerry B Harvey
Management scholar who named the Abilene paradox—groups undertaking unwanted actions to avoid conflict.
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Jerry L Mashaw
Legal scholar of bureaucratic justice, administrative law, and accountability in the regulatory state.
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Jerry L Mashaw
Legal scholar of bureaucratic justice, administrative law, and accountability in the regulatory state.
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Jerry Z Muller
Historian and critic of metric fixation—how measurement distorts the activities it is meant to improve.
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Jerry Z Muller
Historian and critic of metric fixation—how measurement distorts the activities it is meant to improve.
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Jez Humble
Authors and practitioners who helped define DevOps culture, tooling, and continuous delivery practice.
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Jez Humble
Authors and practitioners who helped define DevOps culture, tooling, and continuous delivery practice.
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Jim Collins
Management author studying enduring companies, Level 5 leadership, and disciplined culture.
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Jim Collins
Management author studying enduring companies, Level 5 leadership, and disciplined culture.
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Jim Highsmith
Consultant and author on adaptive software development and agile leadership in turbulent, requirements-rich environments.
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Jim Highsmith
Consultant and author on adaptive software development and agile leadership in turbulent, requirements-rich environments.
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Jim Lovell
Apollo 13 commander and journalist narrating crisis teamwork and NASA operational learning.
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Jim Lovell
Apollo 13 commander and journalist narrating crisis teamwork and NASA operational learning.
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Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
Montgomery organizer whose memoir documents women's networks that sparked the bus boycott.
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Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
Montgomery organizer whose memoir documents women's networks that sparked the bus boycott.
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Joan C Tronto
Political ethicist of care, democratic caregiving, and moral boundaries of responsibility.
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Joan C Tronto
Political ethicist of care, democratic caregiving, and moral boundaries of responsibility.
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Johan P. Olsen
Organizational theorists of ambiguous preferences, garbage can decision-making, and institutional choice under uncertainty.
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Johan P. Olsen
Organizational theorists of ambiguous preferences, garbage can decision-making, and institutional choice under uncertainty.