ISBN:
9781400825080
,
1400825083
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (272 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Perrow, Charles Organizing America
DDC:
302.350973
Keywords:
Organizational behavior History
;
19th century
;
United States
;
Big business History
;
19th century
;
United States
;
Social change History
;
19th century
;
United States
;
Big business History 19th century
;
Social change History 19th century
;
Organizational behavior History 19th century
;
Organizational behavior United States
;
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Negotiating
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General
;
Big business
;
Organizational behavior
;
Social change
;
History
;
United States
;
Electronic books History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-249) and index. - Description based on print version record
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