威廉·大内(William Ouchi),日裔美籍管理学家,加利福尼亚州立大学管理学教授,先后取得美国斯坦福大学企业管理硕士、芝加哥大学企业管理博士学位,担任数家《财富》500强企业的顾问他从1973年开始专门研究日本企业管理,经过调查比较日美两国管理的经验,于1981年出版了《Z理论——美国企业界怎样迎接日本的挑战》(Z Theory)一书,在这本书中,他提出Z理论,并最早 William Ouchi, a Japanese-American management scientist and a professor of management at California State University. He has a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University in the United States and a doctor’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago. He is also a member of several Fortune 500 companies Consultant He specialized in Japanese business management since 1973. After surveying the management experiences of Japan and the United States, he published “Theory Z - How the American Business to Meet Japan’s Challenge” in 1981, In this book, he put forward Z theory, and earliest