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9780521677912

The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924–1970

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521677912

  • ISBN10:

    0521677912

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-12-26
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Winner of the 2005 Business History Review Newcomen Award for best book in business history, The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation provides a fascinating historical overview of decision-making and political struggle within a titan of American enterprise, General Motors. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Robert F. Freeland is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables x
Acknowledgments xiii
1 The Modern Corporation and the Problem of Order 1(42)
2 Creating Corporate Order: Conflicting Versions of Decentralization at GM, 1921-1933 43(38)
3 Administrative Centralization of the M-form, 1934-1941 81(46)
4 Participative Decentralization Redefined: Mobilizing for War Production, 1941-1945 127(48)
5 The Split between Finance and Operations: Postwar Problems and Organization Structure, 1945-1948 175(48)
6 Consent as an Organizational Weapon: Coalition Politics and the Destruction of Cooperation, 1948-1958 223(48)
7 Consent Destroyed: The Decline and Fall of General Motors, 1958-1980 271(24)
8 Conclusion 295(29)
Appendix: General Motors' Financial Performance, 1921-1987 324(16)
References 340(15)
Index 355

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