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

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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Autor principal: Perrow, Charles
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 Preparing the Ground; CHAPTER 3 Toward Hierarchy: The Mills of Manayunk; CHAPTER 4 Toward Hierarchy and Networks; CHAPTER 5 Railroads, the Second Big Business; CHAPTER 6 The Organizational Imprinting; CHAPTER 7 Summary and Conclusion; APPENDIX Alternative Theories Where Organizations Are the Dependent Variable; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.