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

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

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Perrow, Charles,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2002
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 2 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 Conclusions
  • Appendix. Alternative Theories Where Organizations Are the Dependent Variable
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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