Organizing America : Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism /

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American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with 500 or more employees--up from zero percent in 1800. Is this institutional immensity the logical outcome of technologi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Perrow, Charles
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social change.
Organizational behavior.
Big business.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Negotiating.
Grandes entreprises > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Comportement organisationnel > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Social change > United States > History > 19th century.
Big business > United States > History > 19th century.
Organizational behavior > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with 500 or more employees--up from zero percent in 1800. Is this institutional immensity the logical outcome of technological forces in an all-efficient market, as some have argued? In this book, the first organizational history of nineteenth-century America, Yale sociologist Charles Perrow says no. He shows that there was nothing inevitable about the surge in corporate size and power by century's end. Critics railed a.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (272 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781400825080

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