Daniel A. Wren received his Ph.D. From the University of Illinois and is the David Ross Professor of Management, the McCasland Foundation Professor of American Free Enterprise, and Curator of the Harry W. Bass History Collection at the University of Oklahoma. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Management and a Founding Fellow of the Southern Management Association. 

 
Dr. Wren is author of The Evolution of Management Thought, now in its fourth edition (1994), and White Collar Hobo: The Travels of Whiting Williams (1987). He co-authored Management: Process, Structure and Behavior (with Dan Voich Jr.) (1984), and The Management Philosophers (with Ronald G. Greenwood) (forthcoming, Oxford University Press). He has edited Papers Dedicated to the Development of Modern Management (1986), and Early Management Thought (1997).

Wren’s Work has been Published in the top professional journals and other original contributions have appeared in various collected works and proceedings. He has served on the review boards of the Academy of Management review, Journal of Library Administration, Oklahoma Business Bulletin, and The Florida State University Press. He has served as Editor of Academy of Management Newsletter, as Chair of the Management History Division of the Academy of Management, and as President of the Southern Management Association.

Professor Wren has received numerous honors including the Outstanding Educators of America Award, Merrick Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence, and the American Academy of Management Outstanding Educator Award as the "foremost management historian of his generation."